Lucy didn't know what to expect when she had agreed to join Fairy Tail, a loud, rowdy guild was definitely not on the top of the list of expectations though. She watched as a brawl began, Natsu having just gotten there with Lucy, quickly disappeared to join in the fight. She looked around the room and noticed a few people from the GMG's, although she couldn't remember their names.
There was one person in particular Lucy was searching for as she scanned the busy guild hall. It was certainly different from Sabertooth, the guild hall was bigger, and all the people in it had genuine happy smiles, even when they were fighting. Thinking back, Lucy couldn't remember a time when Sabertooth had a brawl just for the fun of it. There was always something more to it, and it always became quit when the fight took place.
"What the hell is a Sabertooth member doing here?" someone screeched causing the fighting to immediately cease. Lucy picked out the voice in the crowd, actually surprised that all the loudness hadn't hurt her ears, it had come from a mage with raven colored hair and striking black eyes. He also, to Lucy's surprise wasn't wearing any clothes, making the blonde turn away with a blush.
"Oi! Gray, put some damn clothes on!" someone shouted from the crowd that now stood gathered around Lucy. Some people, she noticed held curious gazes and others held hateful stares, making her look down at the floor in front of her nervously.
A woman walked up to the center of the group, she had scarlet red hair, and a serious look on her face.
"What's the meaning of this Natsu?" the woman asked in a voice that could only be classified as scary, Lucy looked over at Natsu to see him shaking in fear.
"Well, I didn't know she was a member of Sabertooth, I found her in the forest, Happy said she must be the forest girl everyone's talking about." Natsu had begun to ramble quickly, making everyone's eyes widen at the Celestial Mage in front of them.
'Erza, oh yea, I remember hearing about her. Titania of the fairies, Erza Scarlet, a requip mage and one of the most powerful mages in Fairy Tail Lucy recalled as her name was said, ignoring Natsu's continuous rambles about meeting her.
Lucy looked around and noticed another person she recognized from hearing a lot about. Gray Fullbuster, she looked the partially naked guy up and down and nodded to herself, ice make mage, stripper, cute, she checked off in her head, smiling a bit to herself.
Natsu had finally finished rambling, thanks to Erza giving him a bash on the head, she stood next to Lucy trying to look intimidating. However, Lucy had been in Sabertooth, her guild master was Jiemma, there was no way this girl could scary her any more than he had.
"State your name, and your business being here in our guild, Sabertooth mage," Erza stated trying to sound intimidating.
To everyone's surprise Lucy squared her shoulders and stood straighter, raising her head and letting her voice reach the entire guild. "My name is Lucy Heartfilia! I am no longer a member of Sabertooth as of three months ago when they banished me!" Lucy held up her right hand high in the air to make sure people saw that it now held no mark.
There were some murmurs of shock and disbelief in the air as Lucy continued her story. "I have lived in the woods outside Magnolia for nearly three months in solitude! That is until your mage, Natsu, found me and invited me back to join your ranks. If you so wish, I would like to become a member of Fairy Tail!"
More murmurs and some cheers were thrown from the crowd and Lucy had to bend over and cover her ears to drown out the noise, surprised that this made her hearing hurt more than when she had first arrived.
"That's enough brats!" called an old crickety voice from high above. Lucy looked up to see, who she assumed was the master of the guild, Makarov, standing on a ledge with a fair-haired woman with a kind smile standing next to him. "I must speak with the girl before any decision has been made! Lucy, come up here and have a chat with me!" the guild master called down to her and she nodded politely.
She walked past Erza without acknowledgement making the other woman clench her sheathed sword in irritation as she walked through the parting crowd. Without even so much as a glance back, Lucy disappeared after the master behind a green curtain.
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Lucy relayed everything to the guild master, from the time Sabertooth fought to get Lucy back from Phantom Lord, to the time she spent in comatose with the demon 7 years ago, to the day she was kicked out of the guild. As she was telling her story she was surprised to find that the master would clench his fists in anger every time she spoke of being hurt, especially the time when she was kicked out of the guild.
"I heard you now possess one of our guild members as one of your Celestial Spirits, am I correct?" Makarov said once she had finished her story. Lucy nodded and called upon Loke without even touching his key, all she had to do was think his name and strengthen it with a tiny bit of magical energy.
Loke appeared in a flourish and bowed slightly, smiling at his guild master. "It's good to see you again, master," he said with a smile, to which Makarov nodded and accepted.
"Same to you boy, are you well?" Makarov asked, he remembered the time that Loke had started to deteriorate, Loke had confided in him about who he truly was at the time. His friends in the guild were extremely worried about him and had begged the master to help, to which he had to admit he could not but sent them to Sabertooth where he knew of two Celestial Mages that might be able to help him. One of which, Lucy, took immediately to the job and got him back to the spirit world on the condition that he forever be her spirit and protect her. Makarov knew that Lucy allowed him to remain in this guild and he still visited often, allowing Makarov to already have some inkling as to Lucy's character.
"Oh, of course I am master, Lucy is an amazing Celestial Mage that treats all of us with respect and kindness." Loke commented, suddenly realizing why he was there.
Makarov nodded and gave Loke a smile. "Very well, Lucy, dear I just need one more thing."
"What kind of magic do you possess, my child?" Makarov asked, curious to find out since he couldn't sense any magical energy coming from her, only a little had appeared when she summoned Loke.
Before she answered she glanced over at Loke with hesitation. Upon seeing an encouraging smile on the spirit's face, she returned it and turned back to face the master.
"I am a caster and holder type Celestial Mage." Lucy replied proudly, standing a little straighter than before.
Erza stepped through the curtains just as Makarov was about to question her on the caster magic, from what he knew Celestial mages were only holder types, ones that use other objects for their magic. "I just wanted to make sure the Sabertooth girl was minding herself," Erza said, glancing over, her eyes widened when she saw Loke, but they quickly settled back into a serious expression.
"Erza, she is no longer a member of Sabertooth, as she has already explained. Now, she is a member of Fairy Tail." Makarov stated with pride. Lucy looked at him and her jaw dropped slightly, "Thank you, master." She said breathlessly.
Erza stared and looked the blonde over slowly, trying to get a read on her magical energy levels. "Master, is that wise? She doesn't seem to have any mag- "A glare from the master cut her off and she bowed her head in respect. "Sorry master, welcome to the guild Lucy." She said, straightening back up and giving a nod.
Lucy returned the nod and looked over at Loke, she could tell that he wanted to leave and go see his friends. After all, he hadn't left her side once in the last three months, and it had been eve longer since he had seen his guildmates.
'Go ahead Loke, you deserve It,' she sent the thought, he turned his head to look at her and acknowledged her with a smile. "Thanks Lucy, I'll see ya soon." He said allowed.
Makarov and Erza looked between the two and Makarov put a hand to his chin, "Loke, please bring Mira in here when you go down there," Makarov stated making the spirit nod. Makarov turned back to Lucy as he left, "So, you can speak to your spirits telepathically? And I recall you never summoned him like I had seen you do at the GMG's, you actually never said anything, did he come on his own?
Lucy shook her head and explained, "No, I did summon him, I just don't have to use my keys to do so. All I need to do is think about Loke's name and release a little bit of magic energy into my thought. The same goes for any other one of my spirits."
Makarov nodded in understanding just as Mira walked through with a kind and friendly smile. She held out a stamp and told Lucy to pick a color. Lucy smiled and knew exactly what color she was going to pick. "Pink, please, on my right hand."
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Lucy had been up with Gramps for a while, making Natsu slightly impatient. He hadn't been thinking very clear when he had invited Lucy to join Fairy Tail and he had actually been a bit shocked that she had agreed to it. He had expected her to just turn around and walk away.
Everyone in the guild was talking about the newest member, they all seemed excited. It had been a while since there was someone new at the guild, especially someone as pretty as Lucy, as some were saying. Some guild members were skeptical on her loyalties, others on the lack of magical energy they sensed from her. The fact that they couldn't sense any made them a bit nervous, especially after Happy's speculations on her being the forest girl everyone had been talking about.
Natsu knew better though, he had nearly fought her and had seen up close just how powerful she really was, though why he kept it secret, he didn't know, he just knew now was not the time for people to find out. Something in him wanted to keep it secret just a little longer, and the fact that she hid it told him that Lucy wanted the same thing.
Once he figured out how she had smelled and seemed so familiar he had recalled her fight with Juvia at the GMG's. Back then she hadn't been all that strong, and the only thing she relied on was her spirits, so the drastic change was shocking to him and he promised himself he'd find out how she got so strong in a matter of months. One thing was for sure though, he definitely wanted her on their team.
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Lucy ascended the stairs again quickly and with confidence, she knew everyone was staring at her, and wanted to make a better impression. She could hear the whispers of her new guild mates as clearly as if they were speaking directly to her. Most of the whispers were about how hot she was. Lucy smiled and stood at the bottom of the staircase looking around her new guild.
As Lucy was getting ready to walk over to the bar, where she had spotted a certain pink-haired fire mage, a young girl with blue hair in pigtails appeared in front of her.
"Hi! I'm Wendy!" the young girl said, she was carrying a white cat that looked like Natsu's, "and this is Charla!"
Charla nodded politely but other than that did nothing, 'hmm, maybe only Happy can talk,' Lucy thought as she looked over the pair. "We're the newest member of the guild, or I guess we were the newest member, until you!"
Lucy could only nod and smile at the young girl, unsure of what else to say. She would have never considered herself a shy person, but with tons of new faces that all new each other like a family it was a bit intimidating to say the least.
"Yo! Lucy!" someone shouted, making the blonde wince a bit. Even though they were across the guild hall it had sounded like it was right next to her ear. Turning to find the culprit she spotted a hand in the air, attached to a toned, tan arm, and a body that would make even Sting jealous, covered only in a vest.
Lucy walked over to Natsu, giving a small smile. "What's up Natsu?" she asked, looking at the boy who had a particular gleam in his eyes. "We want you to join Team Natsu!" he said with a smile looking over at his comrade, Happy, who nodded quickly in agreement.
Lucy smiled again even wider, it was the first time someone had actually wanted her to be on their team! With Rogue and Sting, Lucy had been forced to join up with them when Jiemma told them to, so being on a team that actually wanted her was completely new and exciting.
"OK!" Lucy said, lifting her right hand up in excitement. It was a relief to finally be able to let her guard down some after being in the woods the past three months. Even though she didn't put down her magic guard she was still pretty relaxed and already felt a lot more confident then she had been with Sabertooth.
Natsu and Happy high-fived and ran over to the board to search for their first mission. Lucy on the other hand went to speak to Mira about a place to stay. She caught wind of someone's conversation and tensed.
"What is Natsu thinking pairing up with a non-magic user as a partner? He's just gonna get her hurt on the crazy jobs he takes." Someone mumbled with a shake of their head, making Lucy clench her fists.
"Exactly! That poor little girl's gonna killed by that boy's recklessness!" The other mage agreed. Lucy peered around, searching for the source of the voices when a loud shout came from somewhere nearby making Lucy wince. 3
"Lucy is a member of Fairy Tail now! Not only can she take care of herself but as long as she is with me! Ain't nobody gonna touch her!" A certain pink-haired fire mage declared with a growl. The declaration made Lucy's face burn red and her throat tightened as tears threatened to spill onto her blushing cheeks.
When Lucy looked over she notice Natsu standing on top of a table glaring down at the two wizards that had been talking about her. His eyes were narrow slits and his fists were aflame in anger. "She is your guild mate! Have more respect!" With that he jumped off their table and stalked back over to the board, leaving people to openly gawk in his wake.
'How was he able to hear and pinpoint that conversation? I was closer than he was to it and I had to strain a tiny bit to hear what was being said,' she thought to herself looking over at the fire mage and his buddy. It was almost as if he could feel her staring at him cause he turned around a gave a crooked grin to the blonde. She gave a nod of thanks in return and turned back to find Mira.
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It turned out Mira knew of nowhere that was open, other than the dorms at Fairy Tail, but they were pretty expensive. So, Lucy spent the day looking for a place around town. She finally found a small one-bedroom apartment to rent for only 70,000 Jewel a month. A pretty sweet deal if she did say so herself. After finding the apartment she had gone to get groceries and other items she may have needed for the apartment, using the money she had collected from the random jobs she'd done while in the forest.
As Lucy sat in the bathtub, she thought about the busy day she had and tilted her head back with a sigh. Sure, she was in shape after spending months in the woods and fighting with her spirits, but the guild managed to sap out all of her energy, it had been a while since she had been somewhere so crowded.
Before she had time to fully relax in her bath she heard a crash outside the door and bolted up. Wrapping a towel around her body she let go of her barrier on her magic a little bit and the familiar sensation of her magic swept down her arm, sending a small shiver throughout her as she opened the door as quietly as could.
She had been prepared for a battle with someone, however, she wasn't prepared for a pink-haired idiot and a blue cat to be rummaging through her freshly stocked fridge while a red-haired woman and pervy stripper lounged around on her couch.
"What the hell are you doing in my house!" Lucy said loudly, trying her best not to scream and bother any of the neighbors. Natsu's head popped up from the fridge with a sloppy, food covered smile. "Hey Lucy! We wanted to check out your new place! It's pretty awesome!"
"Well that explains you two," Lucy said still very irritated as she glanced at the other two "but what about you?"
"I did not think it right for two men to be in a women's room alone." Erza said sitting up a bit straighter as she sipped tea, something that Lucy hadn't boiled, which meant she had done it herself.
"I just wanted to see what flame for brains was getting so excited about," Gray replied as he flung his shirt off when he stood up. "Don't strip!" Lucy shouted forgetting her attempts at being quiet as Gray looked down in shock.
"We found a job for us to take!" Natsu said excitedly, turning the blonde's attention back to him as he and Happy continued their search through her kitchen. Lucy's face perked up a bit at the thought of being out on a job with a team again, making her smile just slightly. "Really!" Lucy asked excitedly, making the other two wizards look at her curiously.
Natsu nodded and Happy pulled out a paper showing the jobs description. The job showed a picture of a large monster roaring, it explained that the monster had been terrorizing a city out in the east. The reward for taking the beast down was 500,00 Jewel, making Lucy's eyes bulge. She looked up and nodded happily. "Well what are we waiting for then?" she exclaimed, hurrying to pack a few things in a small bag and get dressed after finally realizing that she was still in just a towel.
"We shall be accompanying you on this quest." The requip mage stated as both her and the raven-haired boy stood. "I think it's safe to assume you'll need some help with this monster." Lucy clenched her fists tempting to drop her barrier to show them just how strong she was bet kept it up, knowing she should probably keep it a secret a little while longer. Instead she sighed and looked down at her feet and nodded slowly.
Natsu made protests as they left Lucy's apartment, locking the door with a click. They began their journey, much to Natsu's dismay to the train station.
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During the two-day long train ride Erza asked questions on Lucy's magic, having sensed a bit of it when she came out of the bathroom. She had fortunately been able to keep her hand away from the red-haired mages gaze. Lucy explained her keys to her as Erza listened on with interest and the explained that her magic was similar to that of Lucy's in some respects. She could someone armor, clothing, and weapons, that were stored somewhere and used them to fight. Different armors gave her different abilities as well. Gray on the other hand was an ice-make mage and could make things from ice using the power that flowed through him.
She looked over to find out more about Natsu's magic when she saw the boy curled in on himself looking a sickly green color. Erza had explained that he got motion sickness, making the boy lean out the window of the train to hurl. Once his stomach had settled again he leaned over, resting his head in the shocked blonde's lap. Lucy looked up to see that Gray and Erza were watching her curiously. Sighing she put her hand on top of the pinkette's head, surprised at just how soft it was. Immediately Natsu relaxed and sighed contentedly at her touch, making the mages on the other bench glance at each other in shock. Happy on the other hand, had been sitting above the blonde on Natsu's chair and looked down at them with a small, wicked grin.
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The trip was longer than expected since the train refused to go further than the train station before the town the monster was at. Natsu was happy to be back on solid ground and they walked to the next town. Once there they were shocked to see how much destruction the monster had caused.
Buildings and even roads were turned into rubble and Lucy was even more surprised to see that there were people still living here. Once they got to their destination, they knocked onto the rather large, untouched house. Their employer, a man that had introduced himself as Kale, pronounced Kale-y, was a very skinny and frail man. Lucy figured just shaking his hand would break the graying man's hand.
Kale told them about the monster, that he was called the Night God, since he only appeared at night. He told the mages that the town had an underground system that the monster lived in until the moon appeared. On the nights the moon never appeared, the monster stayed down in his caverns. Something about this didn't settle right with Lucy and she tried to think why the monster would only come out for the moon. Kale continued and told the group that all the towns people had deep basements designed to allow the people to go down and not get hurt by the monster. There was also a tunnel that led to a few different exits in case one was blocked.
Erza nodded and agreed that this seemed like the best thing for the townspeople without protection. Natsu and Gray clenched their fists in excitement, ready to pummel the beast. To the boy's excitement, Kale had said that anything that would be destroyed would not be the faults of the wizards but the fault of the monster. Erza bowed grateful and smiled as they left to regroup and come up with a plan.
Lucy was still trying to figure out why the moon had to do so much with the monster's appearance when she heard what could only be described as a siren in the distance. Though to Lucy and Natsu it had sounded as if it were only a few blocks away. All of a sudden, the streets that were filled with people, was empty, leaving the group to spin around confused. Lucy realized the same time Erza did that it must have been the warning bell that night was approaching as they looked up to the dusky purple and orange sky. None of them had realized it was so late which made them a little bit more on edge.
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Natsu's fists tightened as his team watched the sun sink lower into the horizon. His was bouncing on the balls of his feet ready to start fighting when a tremendous roar erupted from below them. The mages jumped and looked around the ground, wondering if the monster would come out of the ground below them. Natsu was listening intently at the noise of the monster's footsteps when Lucy shouted that t was coming out on the edge of town through a cave that couldn't be seen. Natsu narrowed his eyes at the blonde mage preparing to face the monster, wondering how she had known that before he had.
His dragon senses gave him impeccable hearing and smell, as well as the ability to harness fire and eat it, so the fact that the blonde girl knew where the monster was coming from before he did was shocking. He was still caught up in the thought when he heard and for the first time saw the monster they were about to go head to head with. Natsu had to admit he was a bit shocked at the beast.
It was really big, a lot bigger than he was expecting for 500,000 Jewel. It was large and scaly, with spikes on his backs and crawled on four legs like a gigantic lizard. It definitely seemed like the type of thing to destroy an entire town.
Natsu looked over at his guildmates, pride welling inside him as he noticed all of them, even Happy, glaring and ready to fight the monster. Without hesitating Natsu rushed at the big lizard, throwing one of his hardest Fire Dragon Iron Fists, he wanted to show off a bit for the rest of them and expected to take it out quickly with the hit. As soon as his fiery fist connected with the scaly side of the beats his hand extinguished, shocking him. He was able to regain his composition as the lizard turned his beg black head to look at Natsu, it's eyes narrowed at the boy.
He heard someone, it sounded like Erza, shout his name from behind him just as the monster opened his mouth, blowing a black cloud of smoke towards Natsu, making him cough and sputter when he tried to breathe, dropping to his knees as he gagged.
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Lucy, Erza, and Gray watched in shock as Natsu fell to his knees, surrounded by the thick fog of black smoke that circled him. Gray clenched his fists and both he and Erza charged the beast, using different attacks all over his body. Happy had put a paw over his mouth with a loud gasp, making the blonde look at the teary-eyed cat next to her. Before she could ask what he was doing Happy flew with much more speed than Lucy thought possible, grabbing the gasping fire wizard and flying up into the sky with him.
After watching Happy, she looked back to where Erza and Gray were fighting. To Lucy it didn't seem like they were doing anything. If anything, the big lizard looked merely annoyed. Every one of Erza's attacks bounced off his scaly skin, and when she turned and tried to go against the scales they turned the same way. Lucy watched in horror as the big monster opened his mouth again, shouting out a cry of warning at the other two mages Lucy watched as another cloud of smoke flew from the lizard's mouth. The same thing happened and the two dropped to their knees gasping and coughing. Lucy looked around to see if Happy and Natsu were in sight and frowned when she couldn't see them.
She recalled the scene just before the monster had appeared. Erza had made her promise she wouldn't fight, no matter what, she had said she wanted to test her strength before she took on any other jobs and was to let the other wizards handle this fight. Even though she had protested she wanted to be gain the guild's trust, so after a few protests she nodded in resignation, bowing her head.
With clenched fists and gritted teeth, she summoned Aries, one of her weaker Celestial Spirits. Bringing her out made her drop a small amount of her magical barrier. Without speaking out loud she explained to Aries that she wanted her to dissipate the cloud around Erza and Gray and bring them back over to safety. Aries apologized and nodded at the same time nervously. She did as she was told and disappeared with a puff of pink smoke and another apology, making Lucy shake her head and smile softly at the strange spirit.
Once she had checked on Erza and Gray, both gagging and coughing sickly but otherwise fine, she stood. "Sorry Erza, I have to break that promise now." She said, her eyes narrowing at the lizard that was laying there as if basking in the sun. Except it was basking in the moons rays, making Lucy's eyes widen in shock. She looked up at the moon and nodded, finally understanding. The big lizard got his strength and power from the moon, he was probably able to regenerate quickly as well with it.
She looked over to see if Gray and Erza were back on their feet, it would be a lot easier with their help. When she saw them still laying on the ground, although they were conscious, she frowned and called Scorpio from the Celestial Spirit World.
"What's shakin' Lucy!" a gruff voice said next to her and she smiled at him. "Hey Scorpio, I'm gonna need you to create a sandstorm, something that blocks the moon's rays from reaching that big ugly lizard over there." Lucy pointed to the beast and her spirit nodded.
Lucy looked back at her guildmates and sighed, happy to see Natsu and Happy were with them now, but they were both coughing and gasping for air. Whatever that black smoke was, she couldn't let it touch her. With her fists clenched at her sides she gave an apologetic look to her guildmates and dropped more of her magic barrier, it wasn't a whole lot, and she knew she was going to need more power for what she was going to do, but she was still hesitant.
Without a weird Taurus, the big bull, passed through the gate and smiled up at him, encouraged by his silent warrior stance. Even though he was known for hitting on her, he had really matured these past few months, he still hit on her much to her dismay, but he waited until after a battle to do so rather than during one. With a loud battle cry he and Scorpio surged forward with their attacks and Lucy dropped more of her barrier, hearing small gasps from behind her. Ignoring the sounds, her mind focused solely on the task in front of her, as soon as Scorpio had his sandstorm covering the moon she asked Taurus to attack.
With her eyes shut, while Taurus wounded the monster, she let her body pull up magical energy to her fists, concentrating hard on the feel of the magic flowing through her body. She was careful not to use too much and smiled down at the bright tribal designs flowing over her arms when she opened them. With a happy, and wicked grin she raced forward, becoming lighter on her feet as her Celestial Magic flowed down her legs as well. In seconds she was next to the beast, already crying in agony by Taurus' onslaught of attacks with his giant battle axe.
Lucy smiled at her companion, "aww Taurus leave some of it for me!" she called out, unable to remember the last time she had felt this way. The giant bull and Scorpio chuckled at their master and watched in sheer pride as she struck the beast under its belly, sending a light as bright as any star through its back. With a final cry it dropped dead, giving Lucy only a second to roll out from underneath it and wipe her hands of the blood that was on them, thanks to Taurus's attacks.
Looking at her Celestial partners she smiled wide and fist bumped with Scorpio as he left, promising to see her again soon, 'he was probably going to go tell Aquarius that he had done the whole thing by himself' she thought shaking her head with a smile. She looked over to thank Taurus only to see his eyes in the shape of hearts as he gushed over how pretty she had gotten since he had seen her last. She sighed and looked up, plastering on a smile as she thanked the hormonal bull and sent him back with a thought.
Looking back at the beast she was proud of her work, she hadn't done too much damage to the town, which made her pretty happy all in all. With a bite of her lip she turned around to face the scene behind her. Throwing up the half of the barrier that she had dropped while fighting as quickly as she could.
"Who the hell are you...?"
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Alright ya'll I am so sorry for making this so long of a wait, especially for the second chapter! I haven't gotten a break in a while so praise for me being sick! Hahaha anyway, this was my first ever battle scene that I've written so let me know what you thought of it! I look forward to reading the reviews! Also, if you guys have any questions about this story feel free to ask me.
~animebandmusic