Edited: 4/8/2012 Reedited: 6/1/2012
Hi again peoples! I am fully back from the dead! Could any of you check for blue moons? :D So I thankies you all for the reviews! (ilovenalu, Lucy-chaaan, JessLyn28, ilovenalu [hopefully a different one?], leogirl321, and you three, you know who you are.)
So I'm shooting for a whole chappy in one sitting! Who think I can do it? *cricket chirps*
The disclaimer: dun dun duh dun! …Yeah, I don't own it…
"Well, hello Lucy, it's nice to see you again." said a slightly stunned Hibiki, with Eve and Ren right behind him.
"Well, hello to you all too," was all Lucy replied.
Loki questioned, "What are you all doing here?"
"Erm…" Hibiki was flustered and Eve picked up the sentence with, "We were on a mission to capture some guys that kidnapped girls and then would sell them off."
"Am I safe to assume that these four were the ones you guys were looking for?" Lucy presumed.
"Yep," was all Ren said to answer.
Loki, feeling that his part was done asked, "Well with these guys taken care of I guess I could go now Lucy? I was talking with Aries before I got called."
Lucy thinking of how a cute pair Loki and Aries would be happily said, "Sure, you can go! Have a nice chat!"
So with a 'poof', Loki was gone.
"So," Lucy tried to cover up the slightly awkward silence that followed, "shouldn't we get these guys to your guild? After all that is what you guys came for and it's getting late, right?"
Eve nodded in response, "Yea, let's go."
With that the four departed with Lucy carrying her things and the boys dragging the criminals.
Natsu was slumped over a table with another bout of extreme depression.
"Come on Natsu, Lucy will return, I'm sure of it!" Erza tried to cheer up the dragon slayer but somehow it seemed to further his depression, it of course did not help that he had just found out his scarf had disappeared in the commotion and no one could find it. Mirajane had already apologized several times for letting it out of her sight.
Cana looked over at Natsu and said, "This is temporary, I bet my next drink that soon he'll be up jumping and going to search for Lucy just like he searches for Igneel."
Gray took one look at Natsu and held his hand out to Cana.
"What heck are you giving me your hand for? I certainly don't need it."
"Give me your next drink."
Cana surprised, complained, "What! Com'on you can't be serious!"
"I'm dead serious." Gray shot back. "I mean look at him, even when Lisanna disappeared it wasn't half-"
Gray was interrupted by a fit of coughing behind him near the bar.
Natsu, with the perfect vantage point to see behind Gray stood up as fast as lightning, surprising everyone around him.
"Lisanna! Are you alright?" Natsu called as he rushed to Lisanna's side.
Everyone turned around to see Lisanna coughing in Natsu's arms saying, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine." only to pass out after finishing her testimony to her own health.
Lucy looked at the guild of Blue Pegasus and thought, 'Well it's been a long time since I've been here,' and entered with Hibiki holding the door open for her.
When the slave traders were dealt with they all stood on the floor of the guild in a slightly awkward silence. Well silence except for the sounds of the guild around them and Eve trying to whisper something in Hibiki's ear.
"Well do you guys have any extra places to stay? I don't want to intrude but it's late and…" Lucy trailed off as Ren and Eve pushed Hibiki toward her.
"Um, Lucy I have an extra room in my apartment. You could use it if you like."
"You do? I'd love to have a place to stay for a while!" Lucy beamed, "Can I go put my stuff down now?"
Hibiki replied with, "Sure." and Lucy could've sworn that his cheeks looked like they had a pink tinge to them.
As they walked in silence to Hibiki's apartment it should be noted that several older couples walking in the night whispered how 'cute' the two looked together.
"So this is my apartment, the empty room is in this hallway and is the last room on the left. My room is the exact opposite in case you need anything okay?"
"I got it." Lucy said confidently.
So while Lucy got settled Hibiki got a message from Eve and Ren from a lacrima.
"Hey Hibiki! You don't have to come back to the guild, we did all the papers. So, you better not blow it!"
Hibiki sighed and thought, 'It's not gonna be that easy guys.'
He had been observing Lucy, not in a stalker-ish way, not at all, and he could see that the reason she was camping in the woods was not a mission. He even noticed that her guild mark was gone. He chose not to ask because it was probably something personal. Though, Hibiki had a sinking feel it had something to do with the rumor that the Salamander's childhood friend was back from the dead.
Hibiki sighed again as he flopped down on his bed. 'What now?'
When Lisanna first opened her eyes all she saw were concerned faces above her.
'Oh no,' Lisanna thought, 'not yet!'
"Lisanna! You're alright!" Natsu sighed with relief. "I won't lose you a second time!"
Gray and Erza shared concerned glances and both were think of a line Natsu probably left out, 'and Lucy too.'
"Anyways, what happened sis?" Mirajane worried over her little sister.
"Yes! What happened?" a very concerned Elfman added.
"Don't worry guys, it was nothing." Then another coughing fit struck Lisanna, everyone was shocked to see a hint of red on the sheets.
Mirajane took her sister by the shoulders and held her, "Lisanna, what's wrong?"
"I said nothing is wrong!" Lisanna insisted.
"That's not true!" Everyone turned to look at Natsu whose voice was louder than necessary.
Lisanna slumped down, knowing she had lost the battle. "When I was leaving Edolas the other Mira-sis and Elf-bro took me aside and told me that when they found me I was radiating magical energy. They said that I had to get most of my magic sucked out so no one would suspect me of being non-Edolas. But when they heard I was leaving for here they were worried and told me that it's possible that my decreased amount of magic might affect me here, in a bad way. They said there was a possibility that I could no longer continue to live here on this land and that to survive I'd have to return to Edolas somehow."
Every person in the room was completely stunned.
Hibiki looked at the person standing next to him and started to muster his courage.
"So um, Lucy-" and he was cut off by Lucy saying "Oh! That's my train! Bye Hibiki! Tell Eve and Ren that I'm so sorry that they caught colds and to get better soon!"
And so Lucy ran off with Hibiki behind. 'I'm never going to confess are I?'
Completely oblivious to what the other mage was feeling Lucy boarded the train. As she did she noticed that it said Heartfilla Railroads. 'Huh? I thought someone else bought the company?' Lucy shrugged and sat down. 'Maybe they wanted the takeover to be more subtle. Not many people would appreciate it if Heartfilla Railroads changed its name.'
Unbeknownst to her a security lacrima was watching her every move.
'What a nice looking girl for his daughter.' A shadowy figure sat at an empty desk in a room that would be painfully familiar to some.
"Fuyu-sama, I have brought the papers."
"Yes, yes leave them there." and Fuyu mused, "She'll make a beautiful bride."
And the plot thickens… I always wanted to type that. :)
So I typed it in one sitting, yes! Beat that the non-believers!
So just to say I don't like uploading over any vacations other than summer and winter breaks okay? Because I did that and my story dropped to the second page in like, two days…
So until I write again!
~Butterfly