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Chapter 6: To Keep from Running
"I say from now on, would you like to practice our acting skills? From now on for ten minutes, you will play the role of someone crying and I will play the role of the person comforting you."
-Kudou Senri to Hime Kino, Seiyuu Ka!, Chapter 63, pg. 28.
Multicolored eyes snapped open and stared into one violet eye. "Lavi?"
As his focus started to come back, he couldn't remembered when he had fell asleep. "Twyla..." He sat up. "...What happened?"
"You fainted for no reason. The Guild is fine, they defeated Phantom." Twyla could see that something was wrong.
"Twyla, you want me to stop running, right?" Lavi stood up and walked over to his window. He didn't know how he had gotten back to his house, but he didn't need to ask.
A confused and curious expression entered her gaze. "I'll stop running and start what I should have long ago, the search for my daughter, Wendy."
Twyla's ears stood straight up at that. "Lavi...your really?"
"Yeah..." He turned to her and smiled a little. "I decided to stop running from my past. And to keep me from running I'll look for her, no matter how long it will take."
Throughout the next 2 months, Lavi and Twyla search for any sign or rumor of her. But they came up empty.
As they arrived back at the guild depressed, they were told some important news. Gajeel and Juvia had joined the guild and they were told of the exile of Laxus.
Lavi had also known Laxus as a kid and was kinda sad knowing that he turned out like that. He knew how Master felt when you had to give up one of your blood relatives for their sake. He knew it so well it hurt.
"Lavi, I want you to join the alliance." Master said suddenly.
"Eh? Why? Don't we have enough members?" Lavi said really not wanting to go since he wanted to find Wendy.
"Oracion Seis is too strong. And your even stronger then Erza is, you've been a S Rank as long as Guildarts. Besides I'm kinda worried that Cait Shelter is only bringing in one member. It's really suspicious..."
"And you want me to check it out. No problem, I guess. I was planning on announcing me as a Fairy Tail member anyway. It's been too long since I have joined."
Master raised his eyebrows in question. "What happened to not wanting to gain relationships?'
"After I gave him a speech. He wanted to change and look for his daughter." Twyla explained shortly.
"I see. You'll be leaving soon so be prepared." Master then walked off.
"Why am I included in this grand strategy, anyway!?" Lucy cried worried.
"I think this is a pain as well, don't you start complaining?" Gray said.
"This is the Master's decision. Do we not have a duty to live up to his expectations?" Erza stated proudly.
They all sat in a cramped carriage space. Lavi and Twyla had on their hoods covering their face.
"But what about Gajeel and Juvia? They'd be much better suited for a battle like this!"
"They're both busy with other work, though." Happy said speaking up.
"Are...we still...not...there...yet...?" Natsu said being in his motion sickness stage.
"In the end, we're just the same old group as always..."
"But I wonder...who are you guys?" Gray asked pointing at Lavi and Twyla.
"My name is Lavi and this is Twyla. We're also members of Fairy Tail but we're not around much." Lavi explained without explaining too much.
"Really? I've never heard of you before." Erza stated like she was suspicious of them.
Lavi showed her, his black Fairy Tail mark on his hand. "I'm kinda of like Guildarts a little. I come and go. Master was actually the one who asked me on this mission."
"Twyla, is so much shorter then you." Lucy said noticing the fact.
She pulled down her hood. "I'm a cat like, Happy."
"Wow! So cool!" Natsu shouted before coming motion sick again.
"Aye!" Happy said agreeing with Natsu. "Look! We're here!"
As we entered the building it seemed we had arrived first. "I don't know about this place..."
"It's a villa belonging to Master Bob of Blue Pegasus."
"That guy..."
Lavi knew what Gray meant he had also met Master Bob before.
As everyone was introduced in a 'let's fight' kind of way, everyone started discussing the mage from Cait Shelter, who had yet to show up.
"Ahhhhh!" A girl yelled out as she tripped onto the ground.
Lavi watched feeling like she was familiar somehow. "I'm sorry I'm so late."
"I'm here from Cait Shelter. My name is, Wendy. Pleased to be working with you all!"
"A child?!"
"A Girl?!"
"Wendy?"
Lavi stood stock still at her introduction. He couldn't believe it, he had found his daughter, Wendy. She looked so much like her mother that it was uncanny.
He didn't realize but tears started to fall from his eyes from the shock of it all. Lavi felt like giving her a hug and holding her so she wouldn't slip from his grasp again. But he refrained himself from doing that to her, he is just a stranger that she hasn't even spoke one word to yet.
Twyla knew why he was holding back but...it hurt her to see that. After so long of not seeing her, he finds her and now can't even treat her like his own daughter. She felt a pain in her chest at that.
She didn't know why but she was feeling pain now and thoughts floated through her head of 'Your just a replacement for his daughter' or 'He'll abandon you after this.' Twyla shook those negative thoughts away, knowing that Lavi would never do that. Cause he was just too kind for his own good and maybe...too distant.
A/N: Hoped you enjoyed this chapter! So I'm gonna starting the plot around here. Well not really but Lavi's gonna have a more interaction with the characters especially Wendy and Charle. I know in the prologue even after Wendy joined Lavi still was distant but that really was just an idea. I didn't expect it to turn into a full blown story like this. And I'm actually enjoying writing this fanfic.
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