Pulling me closer
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Lucy gripped the small rock as best she could keeping her body pasted to the giant rock; this was insane! Virgo poked her head over the top of the mountain waving at her "Your almost there Princess! Just don't look down!" the pink haired spirit informed her. Too late… Lucy whine 'Someone get me off this thing!' she thought not wanting to actually voice that she was thinking of giving up. She heard a familiar growl of frustration "Lucy get your ass moving!" her blue haired Spirit yelled from the top of the mountain. When exactly had she gotten there! Aquarius stood there with her hands on her hips sporting a taunting aura about her 'And here it comes…' she thought.
But to her surprise the taunt never came. Lucy looked up but Aquarius wasn't there. "You can do this Princess." She heard Aquarius's voice from behind her encouragingly. She tilted her head back slightly to see her floating on a bubble of water with her legs crossed and elbow planted on her leg with her chin resting in her hand. The Spirits face lit up by an encouraging smile. "Looks like Scorpio told her about your conversation the other day." That usual voice told her. Lucy smiled back and nodded 'Seems so.' She thought back now feeling refueled and more determined to finish her climb.
Lucy reached higher clapping her hands to another small ledge along the mountains steep wall. She was so glad she was so light; less of a chance to fall… *break* Her eyes widened as her hand fell through the rock that she'd been using to pull herself up. She fell back with a scream, but before anyone could save her she instinctively latched onto another rock. Her body slammed into the rocky mountain so hard that she had to sit there for several minutes to recover. "Are you okay?! She found a genuinely worried Aquarius staring at her. "Are you okay?!" the women in her heads voice echoed with Aquarius's. Lucy coughed "peachy." She said taking a few breaths.
'Thank you… um I'm sorry what's your name?'she thought curiously, but was also feeling horrible for not asking the women her name sooner! "Fate…" the women told her simply. Lucy chuckled and began climbing again to regain the ground she'd lost. Aquarius floated next to her extra cautious "Yea I'm fine thank you Aquarius." She told her Spirit as she climbed higher. 'And thank you Fate.' She thought. She reached the top minutes later and collapsed with a big smile on her face at her out of character accomplishment.
People were staring at him; he didn't care! Natsu crawled across the ground sniff to grasp the trail of Lucy's scent again. He heard loud whispers about him and the white haired girl standing behind him. He twitched in annoyance do these people have nothing better to do then to make up weird things! Natsu brightened up catching Lucy's scent before taking off on all fours through the small Town. Lisanna gasped racing to catch up to him when her eyes locked on something.
"Natsu!" she yelled tackling him to the ground. He growled as he was dragged to a restaurant 'I guess I have to keep up my strength to find Lucy.' He thought he reasoned. He stuffed his face practically drinking the spaghetti so he could be done and be back on the road looking for Lucy. He no more then finished before running out to search again leaving Lisanna there slightly annoyed that he wouldn't slow down and spend time with her! All he ever seemed to talk about was Lucy; now the blonde is MIA and he's still all over her like white on rice!
With a final deep breath Lucy hopped off the ground now more determine then ever to keep moving. Keeping Virgo and Aquarius out they continued as Lucy bent down scooping up her book bag. She thrusted her balled fist in the air "Woo let's keep moving!" she yelled walking with an added skip to her step. Aquarius blinked in surprise not expecting to Lucy to have such determination after such a horrifying experience. Virgo raised an eyebrow for a moment before trying to skip like Lucy was down the dirt path through the forest.
Lucy felt something as she skipped down the dirt path; a pull of sorts "Find me Lucy." Fate's voice echoed in her head. Lucy stopped eyeing an opening in the trees for a moment before walking off in that direction. The water bearers face held confusion as she followed her Master off the path they'd planned to stay on. The brush slapped them when the wind would rush by; the dead or newly fallen leaves would rack up from the ground dancing on the wind. 'Something's calling me…' Lucy thought pushing aside another bush in her way. "I'm calling you." Fate confessed. Lucy came across the end of the mountain overlooking the view from the ledge "Wow…" she said finding herself staring at a crisp clean open blue sky.
No towns or small villages simply trees, animals, waterfalls, giant mountains, and huge cleanings a few open for miles. She smiled wanting to continue, but paused long enough to look at her Spirits. Virgo had on her poker face, but Lucy was sure she was tired. Aquarius… well Aquarius was use to her adventurous nature because more often than not it was Aquarius she'd have tag along with her on her little out of house adventures. "Let's rest here till tomorrow." Lucy suggested watching as Virgo dropped to the ground. Lucy on the other hand was wired for sound "I'm gonna go track down some fire wood!" she told them. Aquarius stopped her clapping a hand to her shoulder "Not alone you're not!" she told Lucy who smirked. "I'll always be the troublesome little girl to you wont I?" she asked watching the water barer roll her eyes.
"Wahhh! Too high! Too high!" a five year old Lucy whined from a fairly high branch in a tall tree. Aquarius shook her head with a giggle as she collected a ball of water under her feet allowing herself to float up to the branch Lucy was currently hugging for dear life even though she was in no danger. Lucy stopped whining at Aquarius's touch before launching at her pulling the Spirit into a tight hug. Aquarius smiled running her fingers through Lucy's hair messing it up a bit out of habit "Big sister Aquarius!" Lucy yelled trying to fix her messed up hair. Aquarius laughed "What are you worried about? It's not like you're going on a date anytime soon!" she said finding how Lucy's cheek puffed up in a cute pout with a tint of red coating her cheeks.
Aquarius pulled her into a tight hug "No…" she started giving off a chuckle just imagining the different kinds of trouble Lucy could and would get herself into in the future. "But you will always be the troublesome Princess who can never stay out of trouble because she's to drawn to it. Like a moth to a flame!" she said. Lucy sweat dropped "You just ruined that spiritly moment." Lucy told her blue haired Spirit.
Natsu's eyes were the size of dinner plates "Whoa momma… I'm sure we can talk this out rationally?!" he said quickly ducking a swing while its cubs cried sitting where there food had just been. Lisanna fell over from her hiding place in the bushes 'What in the hell had he been thinking!' she thought watching as he ducked another swing from mamma bears claws. He quickly jumped into the lake attempting to catch a few fish to calm down the upset mother. She jumped into the water swimming after him ready to bite him. With four fish in hand he quickly swam up and dropped them down in front of the cubs.
She climbed out of the water furious in time to watch Natsu jump back in. She roared, but paused not hearing her children whining like before. She found them munching away on some fish. She head snapped in the direction of the lake when she hearing Natsu break the surface and gasp for air. Holding his breath was not one of his strong suits. Swimming over to the ledge he tossed up four more fish. Natsu slipped back under water with a scream. The cubs hid behind their mother while her nostrils flared in anger. Lisanna gasped 'Natsu!' she thought watching the still water.
The surface broke and a giant serpent emerged flinging Natsu into the air when he turned up the heat and burned its mouth. Natsu straightened out and did a quick back flip "Aghhhh!" he yelled delivering a fiery kick to the serpents skull sending it to shore. Natsu fell back into the water in a back flop position. Seconds later he climbed out of the water flinching in pain as he lightly rubbed his now sore back. The bear and cubs made use of the serpent as they began to eat the half fried serpent. He sniffed the air again trying to catch a whiff of Lucy's scent.
Natsu took off running just as Lisanna tried to launch herself at him nearly slipping on air when pain shot up his back as a result of his back flop. He ducked under an oncoming branch 'Lucy!' he thought skidding to a stop to sniff around again the sun was going down. As much as he hated the idea they'd have to stop here! And what's worse… is judging by the scent they were only a few hours apart! Though he had to admit he was surprised; that Lucy had traveled so far so fast.
Lucy poked the fire; Virgo went back to the Spirit World to rest while Loki came back to play bodyguard for the night. He found Aquarius resting across Lucy's lap; something Aquarius told him Lucy use to do to her as a child all the time. The blue haired Spirit gave off a soft snore 'Fate about the other day… and the connected dreams what exactly does it mean?' she thought.
"Well it's not an easy concept to explain… I suppose it could be explained as a form of Astro-Projection where the Astral Body leaves the Physical Body, but you have swayed it from its original purpose somehow… Instead it allowed you to enter or share Natsu's dream and though you were doing those things in a dream. They were also happening as your Astral Body laid with him." Fate informed her sounding very knowledgeable about the subject.
Lucy blushed 'So were really had real sex though it was in a dream?! But wasn't it my Astral Body that was with him?' Lucy wondered curiously. "Think of the Astral Body as a clone of yourself that was summoned. If the clone made love to Natsu and you dispelled it do you think it would change what happened? No; it would simply come back to your body bringing everything it remember, felt, or took with it!" Fate told the confused Lucy. Lucy got quiet for a long time as she just stared into the flames of the fire. "Lucy?!" someone said. Her head snapped up to find the person talking to her; Loki sat in front of her "Princess? What's wrong I've been talking to you for like ten minutes?" he told her when he noticed he had her attention.
Lucy bowed her head trying to figure out a way that wouldn't make her sound insane when telling him that she was talking to the voice she was hearing in her head… Fate laughed at her! "Um its nothing Loki really I'm fine… It's just been a long day!" she told her Spirit. Aquarius shifted and sat up rubbing her eyes lightly with the back of her hand. Aquarius stretched her arms out ignoring the conversation between Loki and her Master. "Let me sum things up for you so we don't worry them more than we already are. In the next town I'd buy a few pregnancy tests." Fate told her before Lucy felt her presence vanish from her mind.