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new chapter~! :3 read and enjoy! :)
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X784, Sin, port town
Luna is standing at the gates of the port town, looking in and feeling overwhelmed with all the humans around. As she was peering around curiously she spotted a person sitting in a booth looking bored out of his mind. Luna decides to go over so she can ask questions, "Um, hello! Do you know where I get tickets for the boat?" She asks leaning up and peering over the tall desk.
"...huh? Oh! You can buy 'em here, where you headin'?" The man asks reaching down and picking up a log book.
"I need a one way ticket to Bellum." Luna answers cheerfully, glad that she doesn't have to trapeze around the town.
"..you are aware of the civil war, right?" He asks her dubiously.
"Yeah, I'm just passing through to Deseirto after I get to Bellum." Luna answers, not looking up from the travel guide she picked up.
"Are you passing through Deseirto as well or are you staying there?" The man inquired politely, while he typed in the ticket info.
"Passing through. I'm heading to Fiore on an adventure," Luna said with a close lipped smile, "hey is it true there's only four towns in the whole of Deseirto?" She asked looking up from the travel guide she was reading.
"Yeah they're all mining towns. Your ticket will be 500 Jewel." He said sliding her ticket across the desk.
"Awesome," Luna said with a small grin, unclipping the coin pouch from her hip and pulling out a gold coin with J500 on it. As she was placing the coin on the counter she reclipped her pouch and looked up when the man gasped.
"I-I'm sorry Hime-sama! Let me give you a better cabin!" He man exclaimed nervously, fumbling around with the ticket machine and procuring a gold edged ticket for first class.
"Eh?" Luna uttered confusedly. 'Last I checked I wasn't a princess.. Except for daddy's nickname for me..' She thought to herself, slightly dazed.
"Please excuse my negligence, Hime-sama! Would you like an escort through town?" The man asked sweating nervously.
"Uh.. Sure. I've never been here before.. Don't want to get lost..." She replied with a sweat drop and a jittered chuckle.
"Please allow me to escort you, Hime-sama." He said with a hand over his heart and a slight bow.
"O-okay.. Could you lead me to the docks? Or a shop so I can buy a newspaper?" She asked, stepping back slightly.
"Oh course!" He replied with a relieved smile, "the towns shop is in front of the docks, please this way." The man said gesturing Luna to walk in front of him.
'.. I thought he was leading me...' She thought, but walked a couple of paces ahead of him. "I must thank you for leading me around," Luna said to him quietly, "I've never been to this town before and all the roads are so confusing..."
"Many new comers think that, Hime-sama. But it's quite easy to get around once you know the street names," he replied with nervous politeness, "Ah, Hime-sama, take a right just up ahead and you'll see the docks, and once you're at them you'll see the shop."
'Maybe if I play this off as roleplaying it'll be easier to handle..' Luna thought to herself as she tried to come up with an answer, "thank you kind sir, you can leave me now."
"Of course, Hime-sama. Here is your ticket." He replied, handing out the ticket palm up with another bow.
Luna thanked him again as she took her ticket and began to walk off. While she was walking to the shop, her dragon slayer hearing picked up on the whispers throughout the plaza,
"The lost princess..."
"She has the royal eyes..."
"Our town will begin to prosper with her appearance..."
"Mommy, her eyes are so pretty!"
"Dear, don't point."
Luna kept up a neutral face as she walked, thinking the whole 'Hime-sama' thing was getting abit out of hand. When she opened to door to the shop, a bell sounded over the door while she looked around before flipping the sign on the door to 'closed'. Lunasighed tiredly, sliding down to sit on the floor.
"Hello? Can I help you?" Came a voice from further into the shop.
Luna sighed again before standing up and replying, "yeah can I get a newspaper from Fiore and one from here?"
"Well Fioreian newspapers are in the back so I'll have to get one, all papers from Sin are just beside the counter here." The clerk answered politely, puttering around behind the counter.
"Thank you ma'am," Luna said with a smile, walking forwards and picking up the first paper to check the date.
'22nd of July X784.'
'A whole seven years, eh?' Luna thinks to herself, panicking slightly.
"Are you traveling to Fiore by any chance?" The clerk asks suddenly, shocking Luna out of her reverie.
"Uh.. Yeah I am." Luna replies walking to stand in front of her across the desk and looking her in the eye. 'Another gasp, hm?' Luna thinks with a sweat drop.
"H-hime-sama, if I may be so bold as to ask, but why are you going there?" She asks with a stammer of nervousness.
"Can you keep a secret? Also what's with all this 'Hime-sama' business?" Luna asks exasperatedly.
"I can.. And it's because you have the royal eyes," she says then looks around the shop double checking for hidden customers and motions Luna behind the counter with her hand, "Come to the back, I'll tell you about it."
Luna followed her after looking for any signs of deception on her face, but finding none. 'Oh well.. If I'm walking into a trap I'm fairly confident I can get out of it.' She thought as she followed the woman through a dimly lit corridor, to a door at the end.
'There's runes on that door..' Luna thought leaning closer and squinting to get a better look, "'Rules are: 1. You must swear yourself to secrecy. 2. All glimmer magics won't work past this point.' Wait! No glimmer magic? But-!"
"No buts, my glimmer will vanish too. It'll come back on when you leave the room, don't worry." She said with a reassuring smile.
"... Don't freak out when you see me okay?" Luna says quietly, not wanting her possible first friend to be afraid of her.
"I promise," she said opening the door and stepping into a darkened room. Luna followed her hesitantly, then jumped in fright when a light turned on and her wings and tail were out. "So let me formally introduce myself," she started with a grin, "Beneveir Lockhart, water mage, at your service." Beneveir said with a sweeping bow. Her appearance now was that of a young woman with short black hair wearing a T-shirt and jeans.
"Uh.. Luna nightshade, dragon-human hybrid, darkness dragon slayer. Pleased to meet you." Luna replied with a wavering smile, not knowing what to do in this situation.
"Ahh, now I know why your going to Fiore. Well you'll need magical items, step into the underworld of Sin." Beneveir said with a devilish grin, waving her hand towards the shelves packed high with boxes.
"So this is like the black market?" Luna asked, peering around the apparent warehouse in slight awe.
"Yep, we've got everything you'll need from magic colour wheels to ancient zentopian weaponry." Beneveir stated proudly, walking up a row of shelves towards a steel desk in the centre of the huge room.
"I'll need a bottomless backpack and a weapon.. Do you have battle axes? Also can you appraise this sword for me? Oh is there a catalogue? I wanna see what else you have." Luna asked in a rapid fire fashion.
"Whoa kid! Slow down, yeah we have bottomless bags, battle axes, there is a catalogue, and yes I'll have Jarrett appraise your sword." Beneveir replied with a slight chuckle.
"Cool," Luna said unclipping the scabbard from her belt and settling it on the desk.
"This is the catalogue, when you find the items you want write it on this piece of paper. While your doing that, I'll get Jarrett out here for the appraisal." Beneveir said putting a thick magazine on the desk along with a pen and paper.
"Okay," Luna said with a smile sitting in a chair in front of the desk and cracking open the magazine.
When Beneveir returned with Jarrett in tow, Luna had eight items on her list.
1. Black leather studded bottomless backpack
2. Six foot battle axe with shrinking and light magic abilities
3. Glimmer magic charm bracelet
4. 'Little dipper' silver celestial gate key
5. 'Draco the dragon' purpurite celestial gate key
6. 'Pegasus' moonstone celestial gate key
7. 'Blank' celestial gate key
8. 'Andromeda' fallen celestial gate key
"That's a load of stuff you want.." Beneveir said with a low whistle.
"I suppose it is.. Oh and a few sorcerers weekly magazines! I wanna read them on my way to Fiore." Luna stated with a fanged grin.
"Heh, alright I'll take the list and look for your stuff. Jarrett here, will be appraising the sword." Beneveir said patting Jarretts' shoulder and walking off down the aisles.
"I should be able to tell where it's from as soon as I look at it, if not it'll cost ya'." Jarrett said with a surprisingly deep voice for someone so thin.
"Sure," Luna replied standing up and moving from the desk so he gets better light.
Jarrett only just picked up the sword and frowned at the weight, thinking it too heavy for a normal sword this size. When he pulled it out of the scabbard, he promptly dropped it back to the desk and looked at Luna in shock, "This is the diamond of Joya. It's a national treasure, it was stolen from the national museum 17 years ago. They have a massive reward for who ever brings it back.. How on earth did you find it?" He asked in a shocked whisper.
Luna looked down, her crimson bangs shadowing her eyes, "That was the sword that was about to deal a killing blow to my father before I took it and stabbed the bastard in the chest." Luna said with a ferocious deep growl, scaring Jarrett into taking a few steps back.
"... What did the man look like?" He asked quietly, trying to find out if the swords robber died by the very blade he went through so much to take.
"He was tall, with tan skin and dark brown hair. He wore a lot of purple.." Luna explained, only to be cut off when Jarrett gasped, 'seriously.. What's with all the gasping? We're gonna run out of oxygen..' She thought with a sweat drop.
"That was Ivan Dreyar! He's the man that stole this sword! And you killed him?! That's why they couldn't apprehend him! Ya'know it was said that he put a dragon lacrima into his own son, who didn't have slayer magic to begin with. He was excommunicated from the guild fairy tail 19 years ago." He finished in a whisper.
"Fairy tail is in Fiore right?" Luna asked looking Jarrett in the eye, "and for the love of God! Don't gasp when you see my eyes, I swear the world will run out of oxygen at this point!" She finished with a huff.
Jarrett looked at her sheepishly, "sorry, it's just the princess of Pergrande kingdom went missing 17 years ago.. You look ten.. And yeah fairy tail is in Fiore."
"I was trapped in a time crystal for 7 years, and maybe I should go to that guild.. I should explain why they'll never see him again.." Luna trailed off thinking of possible outcomes of her saying that to the guild master, it ranges from neutrality, to happiness and then immense anger.
"Just tell 'em and see I suppose? Anyway, you should go to Joya as soon as possible with this sword."
"Yeah I'm heading there anyway.. I gotta walk all the way through Deseirto though.. Can't fly in that heat, it'll crack the skin on my wings."
"You won't need to, there's a railway going through the desert now. What would usually take a months journey on foot, takes a week by train." Jarrett pointed out helpfully.
"That's perfect! Hopefully I don't have motion sickness.. I heard that the dragon slayers have it bad." Luna said with a groan really hoping she doesn't have it.
"We have motion sickness pills here if you want 'em." He said with a slight chuckle.
"Yes please," Luna says pitifully to him, he just chuckles again and walks off to find them.
"I'm back and I got your stuff!" Beneveir exclaims proudly - that axe is heavy damn it! - dragging a trolley of Lunas items behind her. She huffs loudly when Luna picks up the axe with no strain at all.
"This is good," she says giving it a few experimental swings to test the balance, "I just put some magic in it to get it to shrink yeah?" Luna asks as she holds the axe over her shoulder.
"Yeah, it'll stay small until you pull the magic back out," Beneveir said as Luna shrunk the axe and slipped it into her belt.
"Can you set the glimmer charm to hide my draconic features? I don't know how it works." Luna said with a sheepish smile as she took off her cloak and folded it down small to put in her new bag.
"Of course," Beneveir said with a humorous chuckle, "when you have it on it'll clamp down on your wrist, when you want to take it off again just overload it with your magic. Now, to get the glimmer activated you just put it on your wrist and twist the middle portion to the right, and then to the left to deactivate it. It's a pretty simple design." She explained, handing Luna the bracelet with her characteristics written on it.
"Okay.. Now to just put the keys and magazines in the bag and I'll be all set to go!" Luna said with a grin, placing the key boxes under her cloak in the bag with the magazines over it. When she was done filling it up, Luna closed the flap at the top and tied it in place.
"Don't forget the MS pills." Jarrett said as he walked back to her, a small pill bottle in hand.
"Oh! Before I forget, try opening this blood sealed box. It's sealed with the royal Hirukawa bloodline of Pergrande Kingdom. If you can open it, you can keep what's inside." Beneveir said, handing Luna a box with a family crest on it.
"Alright.." She said and pulled the dagger at her throat to release the chain. Luna cut her thumb and rubbed it on the crest, causing the box to make a sound like clockwork.
When the sound stopped, the box popped open revealing a ring with a ruby set in it and a note. "... Well.. There's all the proof I needed.." Luna said and pulled the ring from the box to examine it closer. Around the edges of the spherical cut ruby, where silver vines all inter connected and wrapped halfway up the jewel. The band itself was a simple silver and looked to be too big for her fingers. "I should put this on a chain.." Luna said as she started rifling through her pockets. "Ah ha!" She suddenly exclaimed, pulling a long chain from her pocket and putting it through the ring so it can go around her neck and tucked into the top of her dress.
"How much is all this?" Luna asked, taking her pouch from her hip.
"Well.. The backpack is 2,000 jewel, battle axe is 5,000, the glimmer charm is 500 and all the keys together are 121,500. For everything 129,000 jewel." Beneveir said after calculating all the numbers.
"Alright," Luna said as she took out the right amount. "I'll be going now, I got a boat to catch!" She proclaimed with a grin reattaching her pouch and the sword to her belt.
"When you get to Fiore, get a communications lacrima. Give me a call whenever you need something not in normal shops. Also take these magic pressure limiters, they're earrings so no one will be the wiser." Beneveir said with a wink.
"I'll walk you out," Jarrett said with a smile before walking through the labyrinth of shelves. When they walked out the door, Luna twisted her bracelet and shivered at the feeling of the magic taking effect.
As she walked out the main door of the shop and into the plaza she flipped the sign back over to 'open'. The whispers started up again but she just ignored them, clutching at the ring around her neck and her hand holding the note in her pocket.
'Now I just need to get on the boat and then I'll read what the note says.' Luna thought as she walked up the board rail and handed in her first class ticket. The woman collecting tickets punched a hole through it and handed the ticket back pointing Luna over to an attendant, to lead her to her cabin.
After being left in her cabin she lied down on the spacious bed, her hands behind her head with her eyes closed. She sat up abruptly and shakily ran to her bag that she left on a table and looked through it.
'Damn motion sickness..'
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i don't know about think chapter.. It's too detailed or something.. Meh.
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