Markus Lane
Normal POV
It was the next day at the guild hall, and Justin walked in at 5:00 in the morning. The first thing that happened when he sat down at the bar was his eyes closed and he fell asleep. When Justin woke up again it was 4:00 in the evening. When Mria looked at him, he had circles under his eyes, his hair was messed up, his eyes had a wild look to them, and he basically looked like crap. Seeing him Mria knew that she had to do something. So she got out her best bottle of fire whiskey and poured him a glass.
"What are you doing?" He asked her as he looked up.
"You liked you need it." She said walking away. Justin looked at the drink in front of him. I really should drink it, just out of kindness to the barmaid. But if I do there will be no going back, and Lucy would have my head. …Oh screw it. Justin picked up the glass, and just as he put it to his lips a pale arm reached out over the top of his head, and grabbed the drink right out of his hand. Justin turned just in time to see Lucy drain the glass of whiskey. The blond then slammed down the glass on the bar table, with the whole guild watching her movements.
"Oh come on Lucy it was just one drink." Justin yelled at her.
"I don't want to hear it Justin. Now come on we have to go, or we're going to be late." Lucy said. Now that Justin wasn't busy yelling at Lucy he saw that she was in six inch black heals, a red towel on her head, and makeup was covering her face. Even the small changes made her look really different.
"Just one little sip please Lucy?" Justin was begging the blond now. She shook her head. "A drop that's all I need."
"I will let you drink Justin when every ounce of alcohol in this whole town is in my stomach. And you know me Justin. I. Don't. Get. Drunk." Lucy whispered, but in the silence of the guild hall everyone could hear what she said. Justin slammed his head onto the bar table making the glass shake.
"Don't remind me." Justin groaned. Lucy started to walk out of the guild and was followed by Justin, with his thumbs in his pockets, his head down, and his feet shuffling against the stone floor. Justin slammed the door behind him as he was walking out.
"What the hell was that about?" Natsu asked dumbfounded to no one in particular. Only the thing was that no one knew the answer.
*Five hours later, Justin's POV, In front of the Nightshade guild*
I looked at the guild hall, listening to the music coming from inside. I sighed looking down at my silk navy blue shirt, solid silver watch, gold neck chain, black dress pants, very nice shoes, and of course my belt. I had never thought that I would ever be back in these clothes, not even to mention my hair in my right eye, and the slight eyeliner that I have on. I rustled my hair again, before I lost my nerve and didn't walk inside.
Once indoors I found myself looking around and wondering why the hell I even hung out in this place. It was so different from the Fairy Tail guild hall that I might not even have saw it as one, but for the banner on the outside of the damned place. It was a skull and crossbones with a very odd shade of dark purple flames around it. The symbol of the Nightshade guild. So yeah I was looking around trying to put names to faces. Let me see there's Haily over there in the blue, and John in the red, and…wait a minute is that. It is.
I walked over to a guy in a sky blue shirt, and grass green pants. His shoes were even bright fire red. He looked the same. Even after two years there was nothing that was different about the guy. He still looked fifteen, even though he was twenty-one. His eyes still never seemed to stay one color for very long, and his hair was short like mine, and bright orange.
"Mikey Cork is that you?" I asked the man. He turned and a smile danced across his face.
"Well I'll be damned, Justin Heart has come back. Where have you been man?" He said coming over to me, and giving me a hug. I returned his smile, and was even happier to see that he still had no guild mark to speak of.
"I've been around." I said back to him.
"Say, where's that blond chick you always keep around. The one that Markus is so fond of." Mikey asked me.
"At her house making herself look nice I'm sure. I was going to pick her up, but she told me she wasn't ready, so I left her there."
"Well then how is she going to get here?"
"She'll just have to walk. Though I doubt she'll make it very far in the heals she's in." We both laughed, and continued to talk about random things, when the door was burst open by two men. One of them had raven hair, and no shirt. The other pink hair and an evil looking grin on his face. When they both saw me they waved.
"Yo Justin!" Natsu called, and I sighed.
"Who are those clowns Just?" Mikey asked.
"The body guards that I thought I lost. I had one too many drinks one too many times if you know what I mean." I said to him, and he just laughed again. I walked over to my so called body guards and just about punched them.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" I whispered to both of them.
"Well we weren't going to let our best friend go off on a mission with some guy that we had never met before alone, so we came along. And there is no way that you are going to get rid of us." Grey said.
"Where's Luce?" Natsu asked.
"She's still at her house getting ready last I checked. Ok fine both of you can stay as my body guards. If you do something that will blow our cover I will fire you right there on the spot alright." They both nodded and I looked at the time. "Oh crap Lucy's going to be here any minute, and when she sees you two…well let me just tell you the rules. Rule number one: Don't stare at her. Rule number two: no touching the hair. And rule number three: just don't talk…at like all." I finished just as Lucy walked in.
"Why not?" Natsu asked, and all that I had to do was turn them around.
*normal POV*
Lucy didn't look like Lucy anymore. She was in the same black heals she was warring at the guild earlier, and the black dress that she was in really showed off her curves (and didn't cover much of them either.) A black coat was handing on her arm, and Justin thought he saw some fur. She had makeup on as well. Dark blue eye shadow, with ice blue eyeliner. Her blush made her cheeks just a slight shade of hot pink. And her lips were a shade of red that even tops Erza's hair, but the most shocking part was that the color of her lips were the same color as the brand new red strips in her blond hair. When Natsu and Grey saw her their eyes popped out of their heads, and their jaws hit the ground. Now when Lucy saw them, anger filled her eyes and she stormed over to the boys who were staring at their blond friend.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" She asked them, but neither Grey nor Natsu could answer her, so she turned to Justin.
"Body guards." Justin shrugged. Grey reached his hand out to touch Lucy's newly dyed hair. Lucy slapped his hand away.
"Don't touch the hair." Lucy said to him.
"Lucy…what the hell happened to you?" Natsu asked her, getting a glare from the blond. She then slapped both of the Fairy Tail wizards before walking to the bar. Justin put his arms around the two boy's shoulders and put his head in between them.
"Did I not mention the rules?" He whispered to them, but they were too stunned to answer. Justin them sighed and watched Lucy walk over to the bar.
*Lucy's POV*
I couldn't believe those two, why couldn't they have just stayed at the guild. Walking over to the bar I continued to make there lives a living hell in my mind, and I sat down. I put my coat on the back of my chair, and called over the barmaid. In a blast from the past I saw a girl who looked about eighteen with dark brown hair, bright green eyes, and a sweet smile.
"Cee C Evens is that you?" Lucy asked the barmaid. She turned to Lucy and her smile grew wider.
"Well Lucy Heartfilia back from the dead. I think Mikey owes my some money." I laughed at her. She was always one to make bets, and win.
"Who told you I was dead?" I asked her.
"Mikey, duh." Cee C smiled at me. "So what bring you back here after all these years Lucy?"
"I was bored, and I didn't want to be bored anymore if you know what I mean." I smiled back at her and she raised an eyebrow. "So…how has Markus been?" I asked her. She poured me a glass of ice whiskey, and handed it to me.
"He hasn't so much as looked at another girl since you left. He even stopped hitting on me." Cee C nodded towards a man with a dark purple vest, shirt, pants, and shoes. All of the pieces of clothing were different shades of dark purple, but dark purple none the less. His back was to me, so I couldn't see his face, but I did see the purple berry juice color of his spikey (kind of like Natsu's only purple) hair.
"Well then I might as well go say hello." I said draining the glass of alcohol in front of me. And I hadn't hoped that this would never happen again.
*normal POV*
Justin watched as Lucy made her way over to the guy with purple hair, and as she did the music got really quite, and everyone started to look at her. But Lucy just kept walking towards the guy, knowing what she had to do. When Lucy got to him, she tapped his shoulder and everything went silent. As the man was turning around though, Lucy moved with him, putting her arms around his neck. The young blond then pulled the man's head down, and placed her lips to his.
"What the hell?" Natsu said, as everything went back to normal in the guild hall. He looked like he was going to kill the guy that she was kissing, but Justin held him back.
"She knows what she's doing." Justin said to him. The man put his hands on Lucy's hips, and pulled her closer to his body. Finally the pair pulled away, and the man that Lucy kissed had a smile on his face.
"Lucy Heartfilia." He said.
"Markus Lane. I heard that you were single. Well so am I." Lucy said, and pulled him in for another kiss.
"Oi Justin. Who is that creep?" Grey asked him.
"That Grey is Markus Lane the guild master of Nightshade, and Lucy's boyfriend." Justin said, and again the two boy's jaws hit the floor. "And now you know why we wanted to do this job alone." Justin said patting them on the back.
*Justin's POV*
He made me sick. That purple haired bastard couldn't keep his hands to himself, was always drunk (not that I could talk about that), and he lonely cared about himself. I hated the man right down to wine red color of his eyes. I just wanted two seconds alone with the guy, and I would teach him how to treat a lady. And right now he had his paws all over…Justin calm down. Both of you knew that this was going to happen when you took the job. I thought to myself.
Right now Lucy and Markus were dancing. And I was sitting at the bar talking with Cee C. Grey was at the door watching me, and Natsu was sitting at a booth watching Lucy. I sighed and looked back at the green eyed friend of mine.
"Do you want anything to drink Justin?" Cee C finally asked me. Cee C was a truth mage, so lying to her was nearly impossible, so I had to shake my head. She also got really mad when you lied to her, so to save myself from her wrath (which was almost as bad as Lucy's, but not quiet there.) "I'll be damned. You really have cleaned up your act. That's more money that Mikey owes me." She laughed as she was cleaning a glass.
"You could make more off of Mikey then that bastard is paying you right now Cee C." I said to her, and a shocked look came across her face. "What? Was it something I said?" I questioned her.
"Justin, I remember a time when if someone just looked a Markus funny you would be right there to make them hate you more than him. And you just called your best friend a bastard. What the hell happened to you?" She asked.
"I stopped drinking that's what. And when you do that your eyes open to things that you didn't see before. Why did you think that we disappeared without a word? I mean Lucy and you were and are still really close, so why in the name of the dragons would she just fall off the face of the earth without saying goodbye."
"Finally. I was waiting for you to see what that idiot was doing to her when you weren't around. And you want to know the worst part, she liked it." Cee C looked like she just had to get all of this off her chest, so I just let her. "But why did you come back, and give her back to that-" I didn't even want to hear what she said next. I smiled at her once she was done ranting about the evil that is Markus Lane. "What?"
"You know why we're here Cee C, so there's no reason why you should pretend that you don't." I said to her in a quiet voice, so that no one else would here.
"Sorry to say that I really don't Justin." So you know how Cee C hates being lied to. Well I hate it too. Especially when they lie right to my face, and think that I won't tell.
"Oh come on. Don't lie to me. I know that you were sent by the counsel to keep an eye on purple hair over there, Fora." She tensed when I said her real name.
"How did you know?" She asked me.
"Well, there's no way that a barmaid would keep a knife in their outfit, and Markus would have never hired a truth mage unless you told him you had different skills. Plus, your perfume is way to spendy for this wage." I smiled at her and the shock in her face grew. "Don't worry I won't tell him. I'm here to see him behind bars after all."
"They told me that they were sending in a group of wizards from different guilds. Not just two people." She hissed.
"I know, but none of them would last two seconds in here, and Lucy made it very clear that we did this alone or she didn't come. The whole team would have been dead without her here, and you know that. Also we have four people." I told her.
"I just saw you and Lucy." Cee C looked confused.
"Shirtless." I nodded behind towards Grey. "And pinky." I nodded towards Natsu. "I told everyone that their my new body guards, and they all bought it."
"With it being you Justin it's not that hard to believe you." She smiled again. It had always been her smile that I loved most about her, and I never really knew why. "Ok fine. How long do you two plan on taking?"
"A week at least. It's going to be hard to find a good time to get him away from all these people, and not with Lucy either. But Lucy still needs to regain his trust."
"That isn't going to take long I can promise you." She said making me want to kill the guy even more. Half of me wanted to let Natsu to kill him, and the other half knew that it would get me in more trouble then I already was. I nodded to Cee C, and walked over to Natsu.
"Hey." He said to me.
"Hey." I responded back.
"So why are we taking this dark guild down? I mean they don't seem to be a threat." Natsu asked me.
"Only it is the worst threat out of all the other dark guilds. See most of the people in here are part of other guilds." Natsu's eyes got wide. "Yeah you heard me. Some of them are just people who want a few drinks, but most of them are here to get away from the life of a light guild. Now when they get drunk they give Markus information about the guild that their really in, and that is how Markus is planning on taking over the magic world. So yes we have to get rid of this guild, and the only way to do that is to get rid of Markus." At that point Grey had walked over to us. He sat down listening to every word that I said. Both of them just nodded and we started talking about other things.
"So were did Lucy get that outfit?" Grey asked me.
"She got the coat from Markus, and I wouldn't touch the fur. I got the dress, and don't ask me why, because I was drunk and don't remember. The makeup she always had, and I have no idea where she got the hair die." I said to them.
"Why wouldn't you touch the fur on her coat?" Natsu asked.
"Because Markus poisoned it." I shrugged.
"What?!" Grey asked me.
"Oh yeah you guys don't know about that yet. Anyway Markus is a poison mage. Anything that has to do with any kind of poison he's the guy that you go to. And he wanted Lucy to be protected when he wasn't around, so he gave her a coat that a poison that is activated by touching it on the fur. It won't kill her of course, but anyone else touches it, and you have about five seconds to live. Trust me I watched it happen once, and it scared the crap out of the cat." I said the cat thing under my breath, knowing that Natsu was still going to hear me.
"What cat?" Natsu asked. Just then Lucy walked back to the table we were sitting at. Grey and Natsu stood up and left and she watched them go with a frown on her face.
"Markus is letting us leave now, and I have to get out of this place." Lucy said. I nodded in agreement with her, and we both stood. She went and grabbed her coat from the bar saying goodbye to Cee C. I called over to the boys, and the four of us walked out. Lucy then put her coat on, and started to shed silent tears.