I do not own fairy tail ( though i wish i did)
peps have been asking me to update so I went ahead and typed this
i hope you guys like, I made this chapter longer so i hope that makes up for . . .
well what ever I'll shut my trap so y'all can read
Chapter 3: Times are Changing
~ General PoV, Fairy Tail~
It was yet another normal day in Fairy Tail, if there can be such a thing. The new and improved Team Natsu had decided to go on a mission and were looking at the request board.
"How about this one?" Gray suggests, holding up the sheet for the others to see.
Please help, our village has been
Attacked by bandits, please get rid of them.
# of mages: 4
Reward: 200,000
"Oooooo, it has a nice reward, let's go," Natsu exclaims with enthusiasm.
"I'll take it over for my sister to sign," Lisanna says before running over to the bar where her sister was.
"Alright we meet at the train station in an hour, understand," Erza say when Lisanna gets back, being sure to put emphasis on the last word.
"Yes Erza," Gray and Natsu say in unison before glare at each other.
"Why you copying what I said Ice Princess."
"You want to go at you flame brain."
"Do I here fighting you two," Erza says, a dark aura surrounding her.
"No we're just having a nice brotherly talk right Natsu," Gray says in a desperate attempt to calm Erza down.
"A-aye," Natsu replies his voice nearly an exact replica of Happy's.
"That's good, getting along is good," Erza says before turning her back on them. The pair returns to glaring the moment she does.
"Hey Erza!" Lisanna exclaims, running up to the red-haired re-equip mage. "Is Lucy not coming with us on this mission?"
"Lucy is on a solo mission right now, so she won't be coming," Erza replies after a short pause.
And I was hoping that the two of us would finally get a chance to sit down and get to know each other, I was hoping on getting all the juicy details of her and Natsu's relationship so far, Lisanna thought letting out a sigh.
Before too long Natsu and Gray got there and they boarded the train. Natsu was knocked out almost immediately, courtesy of Erza.
"So are we just supposed to find, defeat, and turn in the bandits," Lisanna asks, Ezra nods, "they must be difficult to handle if the reward is that high."
"Yeah, I guess, but we'll be getting more info on it when we talk to the client," Gray says before gazing out the window.
"Lisanna, what were you doing, I told you to protect the villagers not Natsu," Erza yells at the silver-haired take-over mage.
I'm s-sorry," she apologized, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Sorry isn't gonna cut it!" Erza shouts, "Because of your actions many of the villager nearly lost their lives not to mention we almost did to." Erza had begun pacing back and forth in front of Lisanna, attempting to not ripe her hair out. The villagers hadn't been too worried since there hadn't been any casualties and had given them the reward before returning to taking care of the injured.
"I didn't mean to, I just-."
"You think Natsu can't handle himself? He's been through a lot worse than this Lisanna. Why is it that you think he is so incapable of protecting himself?" Erza had finally stopped pacing and was rubbing the bridge of her nose. "With Lucy it was so much easier, she believed in us and did what she was told at the very least," Erza shot a glare at Lisanna.
Lisanna visibly flinched; hurt by the words Erza had spoken. Erza swung the two nearly unconscious boys over her shoulder and looked back at Lisanna. "Don't do that again or else you're gonna be in big trouble." Lisanna quickly got up and followed her teammate from a safe distance.
Erza sat down on the bed, dying her hair and thinking about the events of today. She was still quite angry with Lisanna for not doing as she was told and had no intention of forgiving the girl anytime soon. A mistake like that had nearly killed all of them. Lisanna had either forgotten her role or was mixing up Natsu with the one from Edolas.
Erza let out a sigh and folded the towel, setting it down. She equipped her pjs and walked back to the room. Gray seemed fully awake now and was sitting on the edge of his chair. While Natsu slept soundly on the bed.
Gray looked up at Erza angrily, "Why did you say those things to Lisanna and yell at her?" he demanded. Erza got herself settled in a chair before answering.
"So she told you about that?" Erza inquired running a hand through her damp hair.
"Yes, now answer the question." Several of the veins in Gray's head were visible at this point.
"I was simply informing her that she had done something wrong, what that was, and telling her not to let it happen again," Erza shot him a 'don't ask questions' glare before looking at her nails.
"This is her first job back, you should give her a break," Gray replied quickly forgetting what usually happened when he talked back to Erza.
"Whether it was her first job back or not that doesn't excuse the fact that we were nearly killed because of her foolish mistake and inability to follow orders." Erza shot him another glare with a dark aura to make it clear that this conversation was over.
Gray decided that it was better for to let this go at this point and sat down on his bed.
Erza let out a sigh, "We are heading home tomorrow with no delay, is that understood?"
Gray paused before nodding his head and going to inform Lisanna of the plan. Lisanna quickly agreed knowing that nothing she could say was going to change Erza mind.
"We're back!" Natsu shouted as the doors flung open. The rest of the team trotted in behind him.
"Welcome back, how did it go Lisanna?" Wakaba asked, turning himself to face the girl.
""It went alright, we're all here," she said with a forced smile. Erza shot her a glance before sitting down at the bar to eat the cake that Mira had prepared for her.
"Did something happen?" Mira asked, worried at the somewhat dark aura surrounding the mage.
"We nearly got ourselves killed along with the villagers thanks to Lisanna's mistake," Erza grumbled as she picked up the fork and began eating her cake.
"Because of Lisanna? What did she do?" Mira asked getting even more worried.
"Lisanna protected Natsu instead of protecting the villagers," Erza's tone slowly growing bitter as she continued to eat. "Lucy would have at least believed in Natsu to take care of himself, same goes for the rest of us. But Lisanna," Erza didn't bother finishing the statement because she didn't have the words to finish. She held out the now empty plate, indicating that she wanted seconds.
Mira took the plate and looked over at her sister before putting another slice on the plate. "It's hard to believe that Lisanna would have so little faith. I'll have to have a talk with her later."
"Much appreciated, by the way where is Lucy? I haven't seen her since we left and usually she's the first one to greet us when we get back," Erza inquired as she noticed that the cheerful mage was missing.
"Master said that she had taken on a solo mission that would take her about a week or so to complete."
Erza shrugged and looked over at where Lisanna and Natsu were talking wondering if she should ask Master.
"Hey Wakaba, where's Lucy?" Natsu asked.
"Lucy-chan? Um, I think she's on a mission right now, she wasn't here when I got back from my mission a week ago so that must be the reason.
"Oh, I see," Natsu seemed rather disappointed by this .
"Don't so down Natsu she'll be back in a few days, don't worry yourself," Cana said as she chugged her barrel of alcohol.
Master watched his children worry over the late return of Lucy. He glanced at the group of Lucy's friends at their own table. They appeared to be glaring at Natsu in particular, and it dawned on him that they probably knew where Lucy had gone as well.
"Natsu if you're going to be that jumpy about take a job to pass the time or something," Master heard Erza say.
"Hey Master, can't you tell us where she went already," Natsu whined looking up at the man sitting on the second floor railing.
"Where Lucy went is none of your business Natsu," Master said before disappearing into his office and locking the door.
This surprised the guild because Master never ever locked himself in his office before. The matter was dropped and Team Natsu took solo jobs from the request board to pass the time.
~the city of Avalon, Lucy PoV~
"Wait . . . WHAAAAAAAT!?" I exclaimed.
"You'll see when we get to the training area," Aria replied letting her glowing hand push the gate open. "Welcome to the City of Avalon Lucy Heartfillia."
I stared as the gate swung wide and open to reveal a magnificent site that was more amazing than anything I had ever seen before. I looked around at the site before me and then back at Aria.
"This is unbelievable," I say in awe of everything around me.
"I thought you would say that," Aria smiles at me grabbing hold of my hand she drags me through the streets waving to the many people that greet her.
After about ten minutes of Aria dragging me we reach what looks like an Asian style training dojo. And once again I find myself staring at it in awe at the tall building.
A pair of exceeds come flying into us out of nowhere, "Welcome home Ariana-hime."
"It's good to be back now why don't I introduce you to my new student, Lucy," Aria takes a step to the side to reveal me. Both of the exceeds are girls and one is violet with a thief scarf and a bell on her tail and the other is a light shade of brown with the same mark under the eye as Aria, a flower earring in her left ear, and flower petal bracelets.
"The violet one is Rina who will be your partner, and the brown one is Flora who's my partner," Aria explains to me.
"It's very nice to meet you Lucy I'm Rina," the small violet exceed exclaims as she flies into my arms.
"It's nice to meet you as well, I'm sure the two of us can be great friends," I smile as I pat the little cat on the head.
"Alright, now that introductions are done, shall we get to work Lucy," Aria says as she slides the door open and lets me inside. "I can deal with scheduling the ceremony at the next council meeting. So who wants to get this training started!"
"We do!" Rina and Flora shouted as I slide the door closed behind me. I followed them through the house, and figured they would explain everything in due time.
Dear, Levy, Wendy, Juvia, and Charle (don't go reading this to the whole guild and don't you dare go letting Natsu get his hands on it)
How have you guys been as of late? I've been great and training is going well. Aria tells me that we'll start with the basics and the easy stuff until after my children are born. The healers here determined that I was going to have twins during my last visit, I was ecstatic. You're probably wondering who this Aria person is, well on the train out of Magnolia I met her and she promised to train me. So she took me back to her home town and has been training me in both celestial magic and martial arts for the last month. I'll be sending this letter to you via my new partner and friend Rina. Rina is my exceed and has been helping me along with Aria and her exceed Flora. I'll write again soon, oh and tell Gajeel not to kill Natsu when he finds out that I'm gone.
Sincerely, Lucy.
I finish my letter to my friends and roll over on my bed to look at the ceiling. I haven't felt the seals on the letters being broken yet . . . never mind I thought.
I feel a sharp jolt of electricity run through me and I know that my former Teammates have realized my absence and are reading their letters. That didn't take them as long as I thought it would, but no matter I guess I had better send this letter before something happens.
I hand the letter to Rina and show her on the map where I want her to go. I tell her to be careful before sending her off wondering what kind of reaction the guild will have at my new friend.
once again I hope that you guys liked it
and that the length will make up for the fact that I won't be able to update til next weekend
yeah yeah I know you guys want updates but the new semester is starting so I can't slack off
