Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait! But, I realized I didn't set out a time frame here! O.O'
But, this story takes place after The GMG and The Eclipse Project.
Now, on with the story!
Lucy's P.O.V.
So, I have walked downstairs to chill down Laxus and so far, its not working. Natsu and Gray are in the middle of arguing, Erza is knocking them out so they can shut up, and Happy is sitting on the countertop of the kitchen, depressingly eating a salmon. Technically, I'm the only one helping out Laxus. We were in the corner of the dining table. I sat on a chair while he leaned to the wall, hands on his pockets.
"So he is related to you." I say with my arms crossed. He just nods, staring at the ground angrily.
"You don't like him or some crap like that?"
No response. Right then, Wendy and the guy walk back to the room. His hood was gone so I was able to see his reddish-orange hair pulled into a medium messy ponytail with right side of his head shaved. Although his left eye is covered from his hair, I manage to see his other eye colored in icy blue eyes. Another big thing I notice from him is that he has changed into a silver bath robe. From the looks of the guy, he probably went to the laundry and randomly took a clean robe temporarily. Laxus glares at him but he kept walking like he didn't even exist.
After a couple of minutes after they disappears, he responds.
"When I was 3, my parents abandoned us in the middle of the woods. Then a dragon took us under her wing and raised us. She taught us Dragon Slayer magic. I had gained Lightning Dragon Slayer magic. Bolt earned a different type of Dragon Slayer magic which made me envy him. He had so much abilities, while I got just lightning. So I became stronger and after 5 years, Tormenta disappeared. We went looking for her everywhere when my father found us and tried to take us back in. Since I have not fully developed my magic, he knocked me out and took my magic. Bolt didn't do anything about it. I waited for him for months. He tortured me with fighting stronger mages and later gave me back my magic wiith a consequence. Ivan implanted the dragon lacrima in me to enhance even my abilities more. Then gramps fought old man and took me in when I turned 9… Bolt left me to suffer. He was an-!"
"Okay. I got it. You hate him because he left you to suffer your father's torture." I say, standing up to grab his arm before he could pounce. He glares at me for a bit but then sighs and leans back once again. It must of been tough relying on someone to escape a terrifying place to only realize that they were never there for you. You had to man up and do it yourself. Thank God gramps was able to save him. If not…
Just then, Levy bursts in, out of breath. Between her forearm and chest were a pair of man clothes. She went out in the dark to buy the stranger new clothes?
"Levy? You good?" Erza turned her attention to Levy and runs to her. Her petite body leans for support towards themselves tough armor from Erza.
"I'm fine, I was in a rush to come back… Since I was worried about you… All.. But I guess everything is… Going well.." She gasped, smiling. Seems reasonable. Nobody wants their one and only home to be in crumbled in ashes. Which will most likely suck.
"Well! I'm going off… to my room to check on those two." Levy then pushes herself away from Erza and slowly but stably climbs up the stairs to her room. We all stare at her disappear in the hall. Once she was out of sight, everyone goes back to their arguments. I then look back at Laxus. He was gone. I quickly turned around, looking for him and see him pacing up to the stairs. Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap! I run after him, calling his name. Unfortunately, Laxus is a big boy and doesn't like listening to others when they are trying to help him.
"Listen, blondie. The conversation we just had? Pretend like it never happened." Easier than said done. Not even amnesia can make me forget this insane day…
"Laxus, stop. You need to calm down. Please!" I called out. He stops right in front of Levy's door and glances at me. His intense stormy blue eyes lock into mines. I try not to look away but his superior stare makes me inferior to him.
"What?" His voice made things so much harder for me to not resist. His body completely turns at my direction and corners me to the wall, hands on the wall. A smirk escapes from his lips and leans closer. My heartbeat was racing and my legs were shaking.
"Oh? Afraid of me, blondie?" Gosh, my face must be like a tomato by now. He turns his head to the side and stares at me seductively yet scary.
Bolt's POV
I carry Levy, bridal style to her bed. But then, Wendy pokes my shoulder and points out the room. Still carrying her, the little girl takes me to a library that was right across to the room. Hearing footsteps, I speed up the pace and hide my face with the hood from the robe. We go through a maze of bookshelves to find ourselves at the center with couches, sofas, a couple of desks, and lacrimas holding many ancient languages each floating. We walk to a green sofa and lay her there. Wendy comes back with a blue soft blanket and covers Levy over it.
"We should let her sleep here. I'm going back to the group with Natsu-san. It was nice meeting you, Bolt!" Wendy bows smiling and leaves the place. That leaves us two then. Sighing I sit on a rocking chair beside her. Her breathing patterns leaves evidence that she is really asleep. Jeez. Under the blanket, I notice that she was still holding on to the clothes. What did she go through to get this?! I quietly but quickly take it and change in the corner under the robe. Now I was wearing a dark grey long sleeved collar shirt and camouflage green fur jacket over it with black straight jeans. Feels weird wearing these clothes. I'm so used to my usual T-shirt and cargo pants with Tormenta's cloak gift on top. I sit back down and begin to stare at all the books in the shelves. This is all hers? Woah.
"Ngh…" Alarmed, I shot my head towards the sofa where Levy slept and hear her waking up. She sits up, rubbing her eyes. Just like a little kid..
"My library.." She looks around the scene, not noticing me and her eyes widen.
"The clothes! Wendy and the guy! Where are-" once her eyes find me, she shuts up completely. She looks at me up and down and slightly blushes.
Smirking, I say, "Like what you see, doll?"
"N-n-no! I was j-just…" She's so cute.
"Just playing around with ya. I already know the answer." I laugh as I sit on the rocking chair next to her. The bluenette glares at me, red all the way to her ears.
"How ya feeling? You suddenly knocked out in front of us, and we took you here to sleep." Her glare disappears and stares in confusion. Seems like she doesn't remember.
"All I remember is climbing up the stairs to my room.." She mutters. So she must of been losing consciousness by the time she entered the room. I explain to her what had happened and she calms down.
"Well then… What is your name?" Oh yea! I didn't even introduce myself! I'm so rude.
"Oh, I'm Bolt Raidyn. A family member of the 'badass' Laxus."
"Wait? A family member? Does that mean you are a Second Generation Dragon Slayer like him?" Second Generation Dragon Slayer? What the heck is that?
"I don't know. I guess you could say that." I guess Levy managed to see through me because she laughed.
"Dragon Slayers are divided by generations. The Fire, Sky, and Iron Dragon Slayers are First Generation Dragon Slayers. Second Generation Dragon Slayers are Lightning and Poison. Then, the recent generation is Third Generation Dragon Slayers which hold the Light and Shadow twin Dragon Slayers." I slowly make a big nod and open my mouth in "Ohh", showing my understandment.
"Seems like Acnologia is First Generation then as well." Acnologia is known to be the Dragon King. Ruthless and arrogant. He was a bloodthirsty person that killed nearly all dragons 400+ years ago, even though they were his comrades. Soon after being bathed in dragon blood, he became a dragon himself. He doesn't want to have anything with humans, although he is one himself. Everyone fears him. He still roams around the skies.
"Yea." She says, composing herself from her surprise at my words.
"I'll let you off with a warning, that name is forbidden in these places. Fairy Tail members shake fearfully just by hearing its name." Her intense stare and dead serious face makes my hands shake from nervousness.
"G-Gotcha."
After a moment of silence, the atmosphere gets akward. As if to change the tense aura, she asks why I suddenly came here in Magnolia.
"Easy. In search for Tormenta. I was also planning to search for Laxus after an incident long time ago but, I finally realized that I'm far too pathetic to even face him." I then look down at my hands in disappointment.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" I turn my attention towards her, her hair is still messy. The blanket is now wrapped around her tiny body and leans forward. I can tell from her eyes that she is concerned.
"Well. Laxus and I were abandoned by his parents and a female dragon raised us. Tormenta taught us dragon slayer magic and many other dragon stuff. Language, culture, histories, etc. When I turned 7, Tormenta disappeared so we began searching for her. Then Ivan, Laxus' father, came to take us back in. Laxus tried to fight him off but failed and was captured. I did what I could to stop Ivan. But my condition of the Dragon Slayer magic prevented that. He knocked the living lights outta me. I thought he was going to take me in as well, but he only wanted Laxus. When I woke up, they were gone. Years passed, and still no sign of him until I heard he supposedly died in the Tenrou island. I gave up. I went through depression. I missed my chance. Years went by and turns out I went to Grand Magic Games that same day when he fought Ivan and his guildmates. When I heard his name roaring through the crowd, I… I.." Damn, I'm becoming emotional. My eyes were stinging and my throat was burning. Jeez. I hate being like this.
A warm hand landed on my now healed shoulder. I didn't even look to see her face, cause I know that it will be a pitiful one. Why did I even blurt out such a dark story to her? I just met her today!
"It's okay to break down sometimes. We need to let out the boulders we held on our shoulders for so long."
"Levy…" I turned to her, stunned. She smiled softly. I was about to open my mouth when I sense his presence in the library along with another. Must be the blonde chic.
I stood up and grabbed onto Levy's wrist and we took off farther down in the maze.
"What's going on, Bolt?!" No time to answer that. I just keep running.
"Stay quiet. He's here. Grab on, things are going to be tight around here." Not wanting the library to be in ashes, I grab Levy and throw her over my shoulder and I begin to jump over shelves to a nearby window.
"He-"
"Quiet, dollface." I turn to my side and break the window. Right when we were about to fall hard, a large dark cloud popped up and we fell on it smoothly. I was about to make this cloudy zoom all the way to another town when I realized my cloak was still cleaning. Sh-!
"What are you doing?!" I dropped her beside me and I jumped off the cloud.
"Gonna go get something back!" I land on the roof of the building and turn to see the cloud where Levy is going to hide within other clouds. Good.
The moment I turned around, an electrifying fist hit my jaw and sent me near the edge of the roof. He spotted me. I got up and pulled the furry hood over my head. It's best if he doesn't see it.
"No reason to hide your disgusting face from me." He says as he launches lightning bows my direction. I swiftly dodge them all. When the smoke cleared, he was gone. From instinct, I spot him beside me and block his attack with a barrier. He continued trying to crack the barrier but it didn't crack one bit. Only scratches. Right after his last blow, the ground below me shook. Underground strike. I jump and flip the semi-sphere barrier to cover myself from Laxus and the strike from below.
"Laxus. I understand how you feel, man, but I didn't come here to confront you. I just want my cloak back. You know how special it is." I was getting tired of this game. However, he just ignored me and kept attacking me. I know he heard me loud and clear. Rude.
Right when I was going to give him a piece of my mind, a voice called out Laxus' name. We both turned to see the blonde climbing up the roof a few yards away.
"Blonde?" Both Laxus and I surprisingly ask in time.
"Stop fighting both of you morons! Especially you, Laxus!" We didn't even have the time to respond to her when the armored scarlet haired chick came from behind her and had hundreds of swords aimed right at us. She seemed pretty pissed.
"You heard her, boys. Try anything funny and I will take you down myself." Creepy. I released my barrier and raised my hands in surrender. Laxus did the same reluctantly. Then, Wendy popped up from behind me, smiling with my cloak on her hands.
"Here, it still needed some drying after washing but, I managed to dry it up without ripping it apart." She handed me the cloak and I accepted it happily.
"Thanks, Wendy. You're amazing." I wrapped it around me and put on the hood. I glanced at everyone one last time. The pink haired and stripped raven haired guys appeared behind the girls. Laxus still had his hands on the air, glaring at me intensely. Wendy was still smiling at me and signaled me to go. I nodded and began jumping in the air with small clouds popping up at my every step. My aim was to go get Levy. Once I was out of sight in between the clouds, I began to search for her within the dark and stormy clouds.
Levy's POV
Waiting for Bolt, I began to wonder about his appearance and his magic aura. When I first saw his face, it released some strange magic. At first I thought it was just me being captivated by his facial features but then I thought about it. It wasn't his piercing orange red eyes. It wasn't his grin. It wasn't his cool badboy hair. It was something that was hiding behind his hair on the left side. But what is it?
"Yo, dollface. I'm back." I raise my head up to see him with a big smile on his face and his hand up as a greeting. Although most of his face is covered, he shows enough emotions with just his face.
"What are you staring at? I know I'm sexy and stuff, but you don't have to intensely stare at me like that." I come back to reality and find him grinning. He has so much self confidence..
"Who says you're sexy?" I say, glaring at him. He then playfully mocks my moves.
"Clearly your eyes, doll face." He laughs.
"Pfffft. In your dreams, orange."
"Orange?! I'll have you know that my hair is reddish-orange!"
"Barely!"
"Am I seriously going to have this argument with you?!"
"You wouldn't be if you didn't forcefully take me here!"
"I had no other choice! Be glad I saved your midget self from danger!"
It went on and on and on for a few minutes nonstop. I just met this guy a while ago and we already fight like an old married couple. That's what Mirajane would say. Remembering the incident earlier today made my body burn from embarrassment.
"Tired from shouting at my sensitive ear?"
"Let's not start, or I'm going to tear you apart. Limb to limb." I growl. As a result, he shuts his lips and glares back at me.
"Anyways, I need to go back to my place and get my sleep. I have a big day tomorrow." I begin to get up and brush some cloud particles off my clothes.
"That wrecked apartment over there?" He points back at Fairy Hall. True. My place is a complete disaster. Yet, I really don't have any other place to go. Just then, a thought comes into mind.
"My library is good enough. Take me back there." I say, in a demanding tone. Reluctantly, he moves the clouds lower and takes me back in through the window we smashed into a while back. I lead us back into the center of the library. When we make a halt I realize that this may be my last time seeing him. I will go with Lu-chan to the Dragon realm and become stronger than ever. A one year training. I turn and face Bolt. Why do I feel bad for saying goodbye to him?
"Well… I guess this is goodbye." I avert my eyes and try to hide my gloom.
"You're making this sound like a final goodbye. Like we will never see each other again or something like that." He stares at me with a glint of suspicion.
"You never know what happens in a course of a day, hour, minute or second. But, how about this, see you later?" I say, hoping not to raise suspicion from the hunk of a man.
"Alright then. See you later, Levy." He says smiling and begins to walk back into the maze without looking back.
Thank you for waiting for so long for this chapter. I hop you guys like it!
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