I'm so sorry it's been a while since I updated! Chapter Four already? Dang! Thanks for everything guys! You make writing fun for me, I love to see your reviews, and favorites, so keep them coming! I hope you like this chapter! ~ Rekkusu

Chapter Four ~ Fight

Lucy POV

I wake up, and I feel someone's arms wrapped around my torso. I sit still for a moment, with no clue what to do. Slowly, I pull up the blanket, expecting Natsu, but instead I see a mop of short white hair resting against my shoulder.

I smile brightly at this, and bring my hand up to fix Lisanna's hair. Giggling as she softly snores, I shuffle around, trying to get out of bed without waking the sleeping girl.

Once I'm out of bed, she starts to stir. I hold very still, trying to make as little noise as possible. All my actions were futile though, as she woke up with a big stretch and a yawn. Her eyes danced across the hotel room, then rested on me.

Her dazed eyes stared at me, searching my porcelain face and my chocolate brown eyes, but for what, I wasn't sure. She cracked a smile after a while, scooted over to the edge of the bed and then shakily stood on the wooden floor. Lisanna put a hand on my shoulder before popping her back and letting out a low groan.

Laughing loudly, I shook my head at her actions, knowing that this was her morning ritual. "Oh, Lisanna. What are we going to do with you?" She throws a beaming smile at me and waddles over to the couch with her arms in the air, still stretching.

She put a thoughtful expression on her face, then turned to me with wide blue eyes and a cute little grin. Lisanna fanned out her arm and said, "Which one should I wear Lu?" Rolling my eyes, I walk over slowly, and think for a moment.

"The shorts and the t-shirt." After speaking my opinion, I nod, knowing that I had made the right choice. "I think I will wear something like that too." I watch her for a second more as she put the other clothes away, then I turn towards my suitcase.

After we are both dressed, Lisanna and I walk into the lobby. Though nervous for my mission with her, I wasn't panicking. I knew that everything was going to be all right. This is going to be just like the missions with Team Natsu, I thought to myself.

Once we are in the destroyed section of the town, we begin to look around the ruckus for any signs of magic circles or magical artifacts. For an hour, we were searching, but we found nothing.

"What are we doing wrong?" Screams a frustrated Lisanna. She tousles her hair and kicks a rock on the ground. I shake my head and sigh. "We should have found something by now, if Erza were here, we would have found something!" Lisanna starts to rant, and by now, I know that's it's time to leave this area. She had already begun to pace around, and if I know Lisanna, then I know that this is not a good sign.

I pull the take-over mage by the top of her arms and whisper, "Come on, it's time to go Lis." She slumps over and weakly nods her head, agreeing with my statement. She follows along wordlessly, while I drag her to the outside of the hotel.

"Lis, are you okay? You seem…. well, flustered." I tell her looking into her azul orbs. Hearing her sigh, I know that I've hit the nail on the center.

Lisanna leans onto me and begins to talk, "It's nothing really, but I had a bad dream last night." I shake my head, urging her on. "In the dream, our mission failed because we couldn't find who was controlling the monster. We both died." Her breathing became uneven for a moment, as if she might start crying.

She starts to get her breathing steady, and at that point, she looks back at me. With a few tears in her eyes, she says quietly, "We have to succeed in the mission Lu. I mean, we can't fail. I don't want that to happen to us." I smile down at her and tell her that we will not fail and it will be okay.

We talk about it for a few more minutes before resolving that we need to talk over more plans before we attack the beast the following night. After walking around, we find a small cafe and Lisanna orders a coffee and I order a tea.

I spot a booth towards the back of the restaurant. I point out the booth to her and she nods, accepting my choice. While paying for the two drinks, Lisanna strides to the seats, wipes off imaginary dirt from her shorts and sits down. When the waitress comes back, I take the two cups and thank her, handing her a small tip.

Lisanna sat on one side of the booth, and I on the other. We both take a few slow sips of our drinks, and look at one another. Though we both know that our earlier mission failed, we have not yet lost faith, we know that we will finish this mission, and when we do it will be of a great reward.

"What are we going to do now, Lu?" Lisanna asks me hesitantly, cocking her hid to the side slightly, looking like a puppy awaiting a command from a master.

Grimacing and running my finger along a line in the table, I answer, "The beast need to be taken down, and tonight." I pause, thinking for a moment longer, then add, "We also need to be safe about it though, some bad dreams can be a premonition."

Her eyes widen quickly, I know that I've struck a nerve in her, she had been gone for two years when she supposedly "died" and she had just gotten back recently. She doesn't want to be gone again, and I know this, but this is the exact reason I had to remind her of the dangers we would soon face.

Her tongue darts across her lips, wetting the drying skin, and her unfocused eyes looking around the old-style themed cafe. "Lucy, why tonight?" I'm not sure how, but I knew that she would ask this, woman's intuition maybe?

"Lisanna, I know that it worries you, but we must defeat it before it notices that we are snooping around. The longer it takes us, the more noticeable we become. Plus, if we do it tonight, we can leave tomorrow and hit the spa in the town over."

Wait for it… BAM! Her eyes lit up brighter than a neon sign in Vegas. "S-spa?" Lisanna looked like Happy when someone mentions fish or Carla. I laugh and tell her that we can only do it if we finish the mission tonight.

She stands up with stars in her eyes, slap money onto the table and struts out of the shop. I jog after her, trying to catch up to her fast pace, but failing miserably. I call out to her a few times before she realizes that she left me behind.

As I sweat-drop, Lisanna turns to me slowly, with a small smile etched onto her face. I shake my head and walk up to her. We talk for a minute, and decide our next course of action; our plan.

We walk with hardened eyes, grim smiles, and a steady pace. We know what to do, and how to do it. Now, we must find the monster, apply our plan, and destroy the beast that cause so much death, despair and anguish. We will beat it, the two of us. Alone. This is our time, and we will shine.