Summary: Her mother gave her a scroll signed in blood and bound with magic. Both a blessing and a curse. Years flew by and she soon became something that monsters, even demons, feared. Lucy Heartfilia – Keeper of the Stars.
Keeper of the Stars
Part One: Childhood
Chapter Seven
When Lucy finally felt the tightness of her magic lessen, she opened her eyes and barely registered the grass underneath her feet as she passed out from exhaustion.
The residue magic receded from her body and her last thoughts, before she shut her eyes, were of her mother.
'Mama…?'
A slender pair of hands reached out towards Lucy and picked her up before she could hit the ground.
"Oh, my little star. I'm so sorry." Layla, exhausted and looking faintly ill, kneeled on the ground and hugged her daughter tightly to her chest.
Layla pulled back and took a look at Lucy's sleeping face and could see the slight darkness around her eyes, indicating that she had not been sleeping well the last few days.
Sighing aloud, the elder blonde cradled her daughter to herself and lowered herself to the ground, resting on the soft grass and closing her eyes to let the midday sun shine down on herself and her daughter, sighing contently as the warmth from the sun's rays washed over the pair.
Layla felt guilt course throughout her because she knew that Lucy would have been up waiting all night for her mother to tuck her in to bed with a story, but she had told Jude she had important business to take care of.
Layla opened her eyes and exasperatedly blew a stray piece of hair out of her face and rolled her eyes at the notion of her husband not bothering to inform their daughter of her whereabouts, if she knew him well enough, which she did, she knew that without a doubt he'd have chosen these past few days to attempt to get their daughters focus off of magic and on to business study.
They often argued about the future of their daughter, Layla wanted to Lucy to know her magical roots whereas Jude wanted Lucy to forgo them in favour of running the family business.
They had tried, years before, to have more children but
It wasn't her intention for her expedition to take so long, but things happened and, feeling the pressure of running out of time, Layla had had to make a very important decision.
She just hoped her husband and daughter forgave her and grimaced at the thought knowing that Jude was very stubborn and Lucy just as much.
She stressed the importance of her quest to her husband, and though she knew that Jude had never ever supported her use of magic and went as far as to attempt to ban her from completing and fulfilling the requirements laid out for the Heartfilia Celestial mages, she still loved him.
Despite feeling the rift in the marriage broaden over the years, getting worse when she had started teaching their daughter and only child, all about celestial magic and what it meant to be a celestial wizard, she still had hope for her husband.
She still held hope in her heart that one day, her husband would open his eyes and heart to the wonders of magic.
'But for now…' She thought 'I'll just take a little nap…' And with that, Layla drifted off to sleep, the sweet scent of her daughter mingling with the faint ashy dragon smoke that wafted off of her clothe, lulled her to sleep.
And together, the mother and daughter duo rested beneath the sun and beside the lake, that had over the years become a sanctuary for the two.
C.C.
A/N: Thank you all for adding this story to your favourites and follows. I'd just like to let you all know that I won't be posting A/N's unless I absolutely have to and that each chapter I post is done so randomly. If you have any questions as to where this story is going or if you're confused about one thing or another, feel free to leave a review or pm me. Thanks!
