Lucy awoke the next morning to the sound of birds chirping in her ear, she smiled at their tune and sat up stretching her arms high while releasing a big yawn. She had just gotten the best night's sleep she had gotten in quite some time and couldn't figure out why. She padded over to her calendar, hers being a strange one as it went by astrological signs rather than months, and noted today was the day she was to go to the book fair with Levy and Lisanna. Looking over to her clock, she saw it was only 7:00 am; she didn't have to meet up with the girls till 11:00, so she still had tons of time to kill. She grabbed some clothes and went to the bathroom to get ready with a relaxing bath to start her day.
After soaking for a bit, she started to wash up and wonder how long she had slept, she didn't remember looking at a clock before going to sleep, in fact she didn't remember a lot of last night. Although, for some odd reason this was this weird sense of security flooding her veins as she tried to remember. Now smelling like peaches and mangos, the girls set out to get dressed up for her day.
She put on a light pink, frilly sundress that ended right above her knees and had bell capped sleeves, then for shoes, she wore a pair of two-inch T-strap wedges with peach accents that matched the dress, and of course a pair of pink fingerless gloves to hide the mark that adorned her hand. For make-up, she applied just a little bit of eyeliner to make her eyes shine and a light colored lip-gloss that she would probably apply copiously to give her lips a nice sheen. Her hair she simply laid down and curls a bit so it bounced when she walked, then after tying an orange ribbon around her neck she dubbed herself ready.
Looking to the clock again, she realized she hadn't taken more than an hour getting ready as it was only 8:00 am now. She decided it was time to write a letter to her mother as she hadn't done so in some time, and told her all about how she was know working for the notorious Gajeel Redfox. Once she was finished she put it back with all her other letters and was about to think of what to do next when her stomach released a loud grumble which she read as "Oh my god feed me!".
She grabbed a few of her largest tote bags for the book fair and walked out of her bedroom while grabbing her keys off the wall hook. That was when she noticed the snoring. Fear shot through her body and she rushed to grab the small P-22 she had hidden under the table (for such emergencies as having her home broken into of course). After grabbing it she slowly walked toward the couch where she saw the huge sleeping figure, she made her way to the front to see his face only for it to register as Gajeel. "Wait, Gajeel? What the hell is he doing here?" that's when all of yesterday came flooding back to her, the chasing, the beatings, and Gajeel walking her home and not leaving.
For some reason the thought of him walking her home made her blush, well that and the fact that he decided to sleep shirtless, but she decided to ignore all that in hopes of calming her cheeks to a more natural color. As she was putting the gun away though, he decided to wake up. While he yawned, she checked out how his muscles rippled, it almost made her drool how sexy he was, but she sure as hell wasn't about to say that. Luckily, she had caught herself and calmed down before he could see.
"Well, well, well, looks like sleeping beauty finally decided to wake up" she said with a smirk as she crossed her arms. He gave a glare before a playful look crossed his face "Aww you think I'm beautiful eh Bunny Girl?" she simply laughed in response before making her way to the kithen. He followed her and sat at the table while watching her grab things and cook. The way she moved her hips while she did this seemed to, almost hypnotize him and a small part of him wanted to see this every morning, but only a small part.
Seeing as she had so much time she decided to makes blueberry crepes, French toast, and omelets for the two of them. After setting it down she got them drinks and they set out to devouring the meal. "Holy shit this is better than Mira's" he mumbled in astonishment as he began to eat a little faster. Lucy of course heard him but decided to keep her thoughts to herself, but smiled nonetheless
After finishing their food, she washed the dishes and found it was only about 10:00 so she still had half an hour to go before she left to meet the girls.
"So what are you gonna do today sleeping beauty?" she liked her new nickname for him as it made his eye twitch. He gave her a glare before answering gruffly, "Business Bunny, that's all ya need to know". She simply huffed in response before rolling her eyes, "well whatever, I'll be out so don't mess with anything in my house at all".
"Tch. Why would I wanna mess with anything in your house?" she snorted, to which he rose a brow not expecting her to do so. "Oh I dunno, I saw how you looked at all those weapons I have."
He looked away with a glare, and like an adult let her comment slid, until she started laughing of course which made him kick the chair out from under her. He laughed gruffly as she did her best to glare at him but only succeeding in making herself look cuter than usual "Cute? Did I just think of her as cute?" he quickly dismissed his thoughts as she rose from her seat.
"Well I'm off to meet my friends, bye!" she said approaching the door with her bag. "Bye Bunny" he watched her leave and after being sure she was gone began to look around for some paper, pens, and pulled out his phone to begin his work.
Lucy shifted the bag on her shoulder as she happily bounded off to the park to meet her friends. Her thoughts were full of the fun she would have, for a moment she was blissfully ignorant of the hard times in the world, including the ones she was going through.
"Lu-chan!" 2 voices chorused, she looked up and was met with the sight of Levy and Lisanna running toward her. She beamed a smile that could melt a winter's snow and ran to meet them.
"Hey guys!" she said as she hugged the two of them and they greeted her alike. "Come on you two! Lets get going!" Lisanna said as she started pulling them along. They cheered and charged ahead to the fair.
They ran around from place to place, enjoying the nice weather and great company. They bought so many books even with all of them carrying huge bags they still held some in their arms, well Lucy and Lisanna did, Levy couldn't handle all the weight and kept falling, though she still carried her bags.
"Moi you two, how come you're so strong?" the two laugh and Lisanna replies "Levy, you act like you aren't haha". Levy puffs up he cheeks and pouts "I'm not…" she grumbles sullenly. Lucy shakes her head "Levy of course you are, if you weren't you would be able to do have the stuff you do" Levy thinks for a bit, "well yeah I guess youre right, but then how come you two are stronger?" at this they both give her incredulous looks before laughing like never before.
"Awww come on guys don't be mean," she pouts as they continue to laugh. "Sorry sorry" Lisanna begins "but its your own fault" she says shaking her head with a smile. "Huh? How?" the two other girls begin to try and stifle their laughs. "Well Levy, we always invite you to go work out with us, but you always say you're too busy reading or doing other things".
Levy gives a sheepish smile, "well yeah, I guess that does explain it haha" soon they were all laughing again. It had been a few hours since they started and the girls were getting hungry so they decided to stop for lunch before going out again.
As they were all sitting in a café eating Lucy got a little restless, "I'm gonna walk around a bit alright guys?" they smiled in return "Sure Lu-chan, we'll be here". She smiled and walked out to stretch her limbs.
After walking for a bit she leaned against a wall near an alleyway. It was silent for a bit before she heard shuffling and put herself on guard. "Hey man," a male voice spoke "damn this place is packed today, I didn't know books were such a big deal" she nearly scoffed at the very notion of books not being a big deal. "Yeah dude" a new voice said "but at least we finally found a place to talk in private". She was about to leave, knowing she shouldn't listen to others conversations, when something they said stopped her.
"Now whats the news on the Fairies" she tensed and listened on with an avid curiosity. "Well from what a hear they recruited a new member but no one knows who yet, but if Wolf wants 'em then they're bound to be good right?" there was a brief silence where she inwardly panicked. "Hmmm, well that doesn't matter, they can't be that good, Sabertooth is the best gang out there, and no one can beat us, remember that Rogue. Just because you look up to Wolf doesn't mean you can start losing faith". Then a new smaller voice interrupted "Yeah! The great and powerful Sting knows what's right!" it was silent and she assumed the man now known as Rogue nodded when Sting said "Good. Now lets get back to headquarters, we're gonna attack tonight to catch em off guard and we were told to kill as many as possible and kidnap the newbie and deliver 'em to the boss".
"Yes! Lets all go like the great Sting said! And we should stop and get some food too!" then a cuter, even tinier voice replied "Frosh agrees!" then they walked her way, luckily she blended in with the large crowd or they would've noticed her. One had short blonde hair, blue eyes, and a scar above his right eye, it turned out the voice that praised him was his little red exceed. The other male had black hair that hung over his right eye and his eyes were red, kinda like Gajeel's but not quite, he too had an exceed but it was wearing a pink frog suit.
After hearing this new information, she made her way into the café and saw her friends chatting happily. She knew she had to get going to tell Gajeel what she had just heard, she tried to collect herself but her nerves were going crazy and it showed.
"Hey Lu-chan, you okay?" the girls looked at her with worry as they noticed her nervous smile. "Uh yeah but…I hate to cut our day short but something came up and now I have to get going" she gave them a sad and apologetic smile. They imagined her father had gone on some sort of tirade again and gave smiles "It's okay Lu- chan, we understand, we hope everything turns out well".
She smiled and hugged them before running home while struggling to keep her books balanced.
She fell through her front door in no time and dumped her precious books on the floor while slamming the door. "Gajeel!" she screamed trying to free herself from the bindings on her bags.
"Gajeel!" she hollers again as she gets loose. "What?! Damn I didn't touch your precious stuff Bunny Girl so shut it!" he marches out of her bedroom area with a scowl on his face, his heightened sense of hearing being irritated by her yelling.
She jumped into him, surprising him as his arms instinctively wrapped around her. "Oi! What the hell Bunny!?" despite how good it felt to hold her (not that he was thinking about how amazing her body felt against his) he pulled back to look at her, she seemed disheveled at best.
"Oi what happened?" he watched as she recollected herself. "While I was out today I overheard some people talking. From what I heard their names were Sting and Rogue, not counting their exceeds. They said that they had to get back to Sabertooth headquarters or something because their boss said they were gonna attack the Fairies tonight with a surprise attack and the plan was to kill as many people as possible and kidnap the new recruit to deliver to the boss".
She looked at him with wide eyes filled with a sort of fear he hadn't seen there before. Usually there's a sort of determination or thinking mixed in but this was pure unadulterated fear, and for some reason it unnerved him at an abnormal level. Then the weight of everything she had just said hit him and he got extremely pissed.
A large growl emitted from his chest and he grabbed her arm and pulled her into her room "Get changed, we're going to the bar, I'll be making some calls while you're getting ready, so you're day off is gonna have to wait". And with that the day become night and completely turned upside down.
Oh uh sorry for not updating hehe there were some issues preventing me from doing so, but here is an unusually short chapter as an apology! YAY! kinda...
Seriously though, I am sorry.
Also I dont own Fairy Tail...
