Chapter Two ~ The Wind Prevails
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"So." Freed looked down at Wendy with a brotherly smile. "Our seventh lesson of your newly gained magic abilities. Now, you've been doing very well in preforming the spells, and you seem to be accurate with them. What about we try to combine some of your actual magic, or for the sake of ease we shall call it own-magic, with the magic from your staff, shall we call it staff-magic."
"Ok." Wendy smiled. "But, can we do that; I thought i had to focus on channeling my magic into my hand so it flows into my staff and it can preform the spell. Wouldn't that mean I can't do any, um, own-spells?" Wendy looked down at the diamond topped staff in her hand, smiling at the power that it gave her.
"Usually, yes, but I've been experimenting with the enchantment machine and have discovered a few features that can be useful; resend power being one of them." Freed saw Wendy's face become that of a confused one. "To put it in its simplest form, I can make it so you call flow your magic into staff when your not preforming spells and the energy stays in there for when you can't or won't be able to flow it at the time. Like a battery almost. This can be used as a way around this so you can combine your own-spells and staff-spells."
"Wow, thanks Freed." Wendy enthused.
"It's not a problem." Freed looked down at the staff on her hand. "Now, it shouldn't all that long for me to write a set of runes so I can create this magic battery, if you will, but watching this for hours may be boring for you. I believe you have a shopping trip with Erza and Lucy to go to, but before you do go and talk to Mirajane for a few minuets; she has a surprise for you."
"A surprise, what is it?" Wendy didn't know why she had asked Freed that, it was obvious to all that freed was one to keep to the rules and spoiling a surprise would most certainly be breaking the rules; more so that the person who had the surprise was his girlfriend.
"I can't tell you that now, can I." Freed spoke with a small smile as he gently took the staff from her hands and placed it on the ground, pulling out his sword to start writing runes with it. Wendy had wondered if his sword was also enchanted in the same was her staff was, all other rune mages seemed to use magic pens to write rune but not Freed. "Go on, you don't want to be late for your shopping trip."
Wendy walked down the pathway that ran through Freed and Mira's garden and through the side door onto the kitchen. Mira stood over a cooking pot, stirring a brown liquid with an assortment of colours mixed into it. She noticed Wendy as she lifted up a wooden spook and brought it to her lips.
"Gah." She immediately spat out the liquid she put in her mouth. "Don't try that, it's really not very good." The she-devil practically glared at the soup who bubbled in response. The girl threw the spoon into the metal pot with a glare that showed her annoyance at her creation. "I'll make Freed eat it, won't go to waste that way."
"Hello Mirajane." Wendy greeted with a kind, if not slightly confused, smile. "Freed told me to come and talk to you before I left, is there something you want to talk to me about?"
"Oh, I got you a present. Well, Freed helped with it but he's not important. I was the one who thought of it, so I'm better than he is." Wendy often thought that the love of the demons was an odd one. "Well, this is it." Mira walked over to the table and picked up a leather strap like thing. "It's a holder for your staff; it buckles and unbuckled by itself so you can easily get to it."
"Wow." Wendy held the strap on her hands, realising it was lighter than she thought it would be. "Thank you so much Mirajane. I really appreciate it."
"Oh it's nothing." Mira smiled, taking the pot of soup off the hob and placing it on a wooden shopping board as to to singe the surface. "You said you were going to leave soon, but I thought you were going to train some more today."
"Well, Freed's going to do something to the staff so I can preform spells from the staff and my own spells at the same time that may take a while to get figured out. Besides, I've got a shopping trip with Erza and Lucy to go in today, Lucy wants to get s new outfit and I was thinking of getting one too. It's seems like I've been seeing less of them recently so this'll be good."
"Oh, well you better get going, I don't want them waiting for you in the cold." Mira shooed, gently pushing her to the door so she wouldn't be late for her shopping trip. "Go, shoo." Wendy soon had the door closed and was forced to leave the building.
"Well that was rude." Freed spoke as he rapped two arms around Mirajane. "But I'm glad you did it." He kissed the back of her neck.
"Shouldn't you be working on her staff?" Mira walked to the pot of soup and lifted a spoon of it to Freed's lips to eat. When he did he smiled, but his left eyebrow twitched at the taste of it, all he could think was why on the gods name did she make me try that.
"I finishedthat mere minuets after she left to talk to you, a simple rune that caused minimal time and bother." Freed grinned slightly and Mirajane felt the upturn of lips on her neck.
"Then why did you send her away?"
"Well I have a gift for you. I wanted to keep it a secret until she left but the prospect of what's inevitably going to happen after it exited me a lot." He lifted a large black duffle bag. "Or should I say arouses me." He unzipped the bag and watched as Mira's eyes light up with pure joy.
"Handcuffs; whips; riding crops; ohh, metal chastity, I thought you hated chastity." Mira picked up a cage like item made of metal and in the shape of a flaccid penis. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"A slave mist do anything to please their goddess, surely you know that." He got on his knee and took her hand to kiss it. "Now how does my personal goddess intend to pleasure herself while punishming a lowly slut such as myself."
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Wendy walked in between Lucy and Erza, Lucy talking to Erza about all the stores they could go to. Magnolia had opened a new street filled with an assortment of branded clothing outlets with famous designers and, according to Lucy, cute guys in tight black troubles that showed their asses off. Needless to say, Lucy had entered full teenage girl mode and Wendy was scared.
"Oh, look at that one, I really like that one, I heard that one had the greatest line of skirts that came out in their newest design. Their black, but had four layers of a flowing slightly see through fabric that looks amazing, we have to go in there." The blonde rushed off the the shop she spoke of, happily grinning with a wide smile.
"So Wendy." Erza's strong but kind voice tore Wendy's gaze away from the happy blonde. "Why haven't you been at the guild as much over the last two weeks? People have started to notice you know. Carla more than most, she keeps trying to get natus and Gajeel to sniff you out but they say you can handle yourself."
Wendy's eyes widened. She had hidden the fact she was being trained by Freed from all of the guild, apart from Mira and Freed, because when they found out she wanted to be good at using them, therefore she would tell them when Freed thought she could fight most members of the guild with her newly gained powers alone; they had agreed this to be reasonable terms as one mage in particular would ask to fight her.
"Oh, well." Wendy's mind raced, looking for an excuse to her absence. "It's Carla's birthday soon and I've been looking for a present. I didn't tell anyone else because, well, secrets can be hard with the people in the guild." The girl was proud of her lie, it made sense and worked under the circumstances.
"Then why has Freed always been absent on your shopping trips, and don't try to deny it, I've been taking notes. Nobody else seemed to notice, but I know. It's not a coincidence, so don't try to pass it off as one." Her voice got slightly more edgy in a protective manner, that rune Mage better not have hurt her precious friend.
"It's nothing bad, we went in a mission together a few weeks ago and I told him about my plans to get her something. He insisted on helping me and paying for it. I told him not to, but he wouldn't budge so I had to agree." Erza's harsh face didn't falter. "Erza, you know he thinks of me like a little sister, someone bumped into me and he scolded them. It was embarrassing." Her lie widened.
"Well I suppose that's okay, but I will have to ta-"
"Aren't you two coming in?" Lucy cut Erza off, waving a handful of clothing around, almost hitting a shop attendant on the head with it. "The clothes in here a soooo good."
"Does she always get like this when shopping?" Wendy saw this behaviour as a way out of the conversation about her and Freed, and she was glad of it.
"Yes, but she was brought up in a way where girls acting like this when clothes are concerned is normal; her being like this is just acting how she's been told to by society." They heard her talking fast about a sweater. "Or maybe she's just weird." Wendy resisted the topic of strawberry cakes.
The two girls walked into the store, boppy and jumpy music hitting them immediately. The shop was a nice one, some exposed brick as a design choice, metal grate stare case and second floor. The young men in tight black trousers that Lucy had spoke of were scattered around, along with women in skirts and tight shirts, all with bodies similar to Lucy.
"This is a clothes store?" Wendy looked around, confused slightly. "Are you sure we went into the right building." The clothes shops Wendy would normally go into were quiet places with hardly any walking and the only people that worked there his behind the counter.
"Wendy, you wanted a new outfit, didn't you?" Lucy smiled widely, seemingly in the happiest mood possible for the girl. Hesitantly, Wendy nodded. "I've made one up for you. Come on, put it on, put it on." Lucy forced an outfit into the sky dragon slayers hands and pushed her into the direction of the changing rooms. The curtain was held shut so Wendy couldn't escape.
"Lucy, are you okay? You seem to be rather overexcited by this shopping trip." Erza looked at Lucy with a concerned face, she was acting rather exited considering she was just buying a new outfit.
"I think Wendy's got a boyfriend." Lucy's grin widened to a degree where it should be painful. She didn't seem to care though. "That's why she's been sneaking off, to go on dates with her little boyfriend. Isn't that cute, they probably went to a little café where they drank milkshakes and smoothies. Do you think he pulls her chair out for her? We should follow her next time she goes out."
"I don't think that's what she's doing..." Erza then saw an opportunity to see what was really happening when Wendy. "Yes, we should most definitely follow her on this... Date." Erza knew it wasn't a date, though if it was then Freed would be answering a lot of questions posed by fifty or so swords, maybe sixty. Freed was involved in some way, otherwise she wouldn't have mentioned him.
"Um I've put the clothes on, can you let me out please Lucy?" Wendy's voice stopped the conversation from progressing any further. Lucy let go of the curtain and allowed Wendy to walk out of it.
The young girl was dressed in a black blouse, which was covered by a cream cardigan; one of the black skirts that Lucy had spoken of before with black legging and a blue flowy scarf.
"Oh Wendy that looks really cute." Lucy practically squealed. "You'd get some boys attention wearing that."
"I-I don't want any boys attention." Wendy blushed, what on earth was up with the blonde girl; something must have happened on her last training session.
"Oh really." Lucy smile a mischievous and altogether rather scary face that unnerved Wendy. "And why is that? Perhaps you don't want the attention of boys because you already have it from one special boy already?" She began to poke the blushing girls face.
"No! I don't have a boyfriend!" Wendy squealed.
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Freed walked up the stairs of the fairy guildhall, aiming to go to the table of his team. He was rubbing his right wrist slightly, the red marks of a rope burn still slightly noticeable after his time with Mirajane. He grinned at the thought, his goddess was rather good at being rough.
He sat at the table silently, waiting for Laxus, Bickslow and Evergreen to notice him being there. Laxus was listening to music with his eyes closed, Evergreen was reading an article about the most attractive women mages, and how she wasn't in the top twenty. Needless to say she wasn't happy. Bickslow was chatting to his 'babies', who bobbed up and down.
"How dare they not include me in the top ten most beautiful mages in Fiore. I am a beautiful mother fucking fairy." Evergreen slammed the magazine onto the circular wooden table. "Oh, hey Freed." She said, still angry sounding. "This is ridiculous!"
"Well, Evergeen, the women in these lists are usually portrayed as the ones who either need to be protected or are the stern ones who wear provocative clothing. You, on the other hand, a a strong woman who doesn't feel the need to wear clothing that couldn't cover an infinite child." Freed didn't want to here her moan about her unjust placement. "Even if it is that elfman doesn't like other men looking at what is his."
Evergreen glared at Freed, but he didn't care. An arm slung its way over his shoulder. "Hey freedy baby." Bickslow cheered, his babies mocking 'freely baby freedy baby' as he did so. "Where've you been all mornin', fucking' bouncy boob Mira?"
"Please do not refer to my girlfriend as 'bouncy boob Mira' as I feel both insulted by it and worried for you when she finds out what you called her." Freed sighed. "Now I have a request for all of you, so all of you pay attention because if you don't then you won't get a choice."
The three Thunder God tribe members sighed and looked at Freed, who smiled back at them. When he heard Laxus hadn't actually turned his music off, just pretended to, he leant over and pulled them off his head and placed them on the table out of the dragon slayers reach.
"Now, you may have realised that I've been frequenting the guild less than normal of late, you may be wondering why that is." Evergreen and Bickslwo nodded, while Laxus looked indifferent. "Well I have been training the you d dragon slayer to use new spells after she was feeling insecure about her arsenal."
"Daww, Freed you do care about people." Evergreen coed. "And here we thought that you were a heartless bitch"
"Well, I've been thinking that, although training how to use spells on inanimate objects is good to a certain degree, it won't be useful on future missions and fights she may be on. I was wondering if we could take her on a mission with us to give her experience."
His three friends suddenly pages attention to him. Bickslow's babies stopped bobbing up and down, evergreen stopped glancing down at the open magazine when she thought freed wasn't looking, and Laxus drowned out the music he could hear from his discarded headphones thanks to his highly sensitive hearing.
"You sure baby?" Bickslow asked with an uncharacteristically scrunched up face. He didn't know much about the sky dragon, but the kind of missions the raijinshuu went on were usually difficult, even for a team who could all be classed as S-class when they were serious.
"Yes, she doesn't seem to have the same attitude we have when doing missions. She seems a bit too, I don't know, timid for us." Evergreen hadn't ever seen Wendy in a fully serious way, sure she did well in the grand magic game but the missions of the raijinshuu were more violent and bloody.
"Nah." Laxus chuckled. "Freed's a pretty smart guy, I'm sure he's got it all sorted with her. He won't push her too far, I'm sure. Sure the kid's probably not as good as us but she'll be fine, she's got a good trainer." He glanced at Freed, who looked confused at the praise. "What, I'm tryin' to be better at this friendly shit. Not my fault I ain't good at it." He grumbled the last part.
"Well, she is strong and I've been training her; we don't have to go on a mission the to the high degree of difficulty we normally do. I just feel it would be good for her to go on a mission, and her usual team doesn't know about the spells she's learnt as she wished to surprise them."
"You got an idea of what mission we're gonna do with 'er, nothin' too bad I 'ope" Freed's eye twitched slightly, Laxus had an annoying habit of not pronouncing all the letters in words and it a the rune Mage, who's existence surrounded on proper use and pronunciation of words.
"Actually I thought we could take her on a mission that was sent to us directly a week or so ago. We've been asked to stop four mages in the distant town of Marionette who have started up a dark guild. We've taken down many larger dark guilds before with just three of us as. Laxus, you had been excluded. I thought that you three could take down one of the members each and Wendy and myself could fight the other one."
Freed reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a small, leather bound notebook which his team had dubbed 'The mission maker'. As the raijinshuu were rebound at getting jobs done with ease, many people had personally asked for them to complete missions, hence Freed kept a book of these missions to be done. He flipped open the pages until he found the mission he spoke of, four pictures of mean looking men in their twenties were shown with small bits of information on them scribbled next to it. It was always ironic to the raijinshuu that a man who was so concerned about words had such bad handwriting.
"Wow, first mission with us and your sending her to fight some maniac mage guys." Bickslow commented after scanning the words on the page. "Wouldn't wanna be trained by you, your a nasty shit. Good thing you got bouncy boob to have you on a tight leash."
"For the love of God, Bickslow, stop referring to mira as 'Bouncy Boob' it's rude, and if you must know she does not keep me on a leash." Freed smirked at his perverted friend. "She much prefers using handcuffs." Evergeen and Laxus gawped at Freed, while Bickslow cackled loudly with a wide grin.
"Ha, I knew you were into the kinky bondage shit." He put his hand on the table, palm open. "Come on Ever-baby, pay up."