Hey everybody! Long-time no see! Back at school so can't write as much. Also writers block doesn't help. Suggestions are welcome! Next world is now locked (One piece…) but new entries are welcome. Vote on poll for next world. Story needs new title to help with views. More at the end of chapter. Usual thanks to be given to insert decent name here but also to ninja daughter of Hermes who entertained me with a pm battle. Review their stories as thanks for unlocking this chapter from the safety deposit box.
The day I own anything is the day I buy a huge old fashioned house in the middle of a city. And staff it. And feed my anime addiction till it's full. And buy the school I go to. And since I'm not topping every subject and the history of anime is not a subject I don't…
Chapter 7 – Erza's story
'Why?' thought Erza as she ran through the forest surrounding the temple, jumping from tree to tree wearing ninja armour.
"Why now? Why here? Why you? Lucy…"
Flashback
Erza and Wendy walked up to Fairy Tail's front doors. She smiled at the place. She was home.
Then Natsu crashed through the doors. "Lucy!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, and considering that this was Natsu that's quite loud.
Erza turned to scold the dragon boy, but he was already gone. Instead she walked through the door and faced the guild "what the hell is going on!" she cried, getting every ones attention.
They all shrugged. All except for Mirajane. "Mira?" asked Ezra, drawing the guilds attention to the white hared girl.
The girl they saw there was shaking in sorrow. At least that's what they thought. But when she lifted her head they saw the expression her eyes held. Rage, pure rage was there. If she hadn't been in her normal clothes they would've sworn she was in her demon mode. The rage in her eyes exploded outwards when she saw Erza. The entire guild was awash with it. Some of the guild almost fainted while all the non-mage staff fled. Even Erza was shaking from the amount that was directed at her.
"Three weeks!" she spat out shocking the guild members.
Mira had never spoken like that the entire time she had been at Fairy Tail. Even when she had been the rebel she had always had a silky tone. "She's been gone tree weeks and nobody noticed. Three weeks of me, praying, day after day for someone, just someone, to ask where she was. Just ask about it. But no! No one notices she's gone. The master and I spend nights on end crying for our loss, the guilds loss, but no one here ever shed a tear for her. The only time that anyone thought of her for three weeks was when Natsu couldn't have Linsanna for a partner. When she needed replacing!" with that, the fire seemed to leave her, and she collapsed into tears.
The guild was shocked. They couldn't think of anyone missing, but that was the only explanation for the usually calm girl's explosion. The bravest of them, Erza, was the one to ask the question. "Who Mira-san?" asked the red warrior.
Mirajane looked up, and uttered a single name. "Lucy,"
There was no noise, no gasps of surprise, no tears, just cold hard silence. The few who hadn't been there when the lost girls left like Levi and team shadow gear had only thought she was out on a long term mission, but others, who had been there when she left, just thought back to how she hadn't been there. Lucy never really stood out at the bar, she had always just, been there. The next sound in the room was five minutes later, when Natsu came back from searching Lucy's house. His face wore an expression like he had just lost Igneel for the second time. "She's gone." He said, walking to the bar. "Her scent was faint but I traced her to the woods. She just disappears from there. The lost girls smell so much like the forest that I can't track them."
"No," sobbed Levi, feeling so guilty about the fact that she hadn't checked on her friend. She had just thought that she was on a mission as she so often was these days. By that point most of the guild thought hollow. In the end though, they dealt with the grief the only way they knew how. They went on as normal. To an untrained eye they were the same as always. But Erza saw that Grey wasn't stripping or that Canna wasn't drinking. Even the best of friends, Grey and Natsu, were fighting. It was like everyone was trying too hard to carry on as normal. And as for Erza, the feeling that she was home never came back.
End flashback
Mira, as it turned out, had been living in Lucy's apartment, moving out of her place in fairy hills. "Lucy could move to fairy hills when she comes back" thought Erza smiling. Yes Lucy would come back. "She has to." Whispered Erza, rocketing towards the town.
Earlier in said town
Master Mavrok was happy. Because of his guild damaging less property in missions the mage council was no longer mad at him. If you added the fact that the guild had stepped back and let the council take the credit for capturing the mages of Grimoire Heart, Fairy Tail were in the mage councils favour. The reason the guild was damaging less property was the only reason for him to be sad. The guild didn't want to risk hurting their missing nakama, Lucy.
Though he didn't want to be sad today, because today was special for so many of his children. All of them were close to Lucy, and he knew the blond would want to see him smiling on such as special day.
"today is filled with promise." Thought the master as the train pulled into the station.
This was meant to be twice as long, but I decided to cut my losses and publish it next week. 2 REVIEWS FOR AN UPDATE PEOPLE! Once again thank you to insert decent name here for reviewing and actually getting me to post this chapter. At this rate I might as well be exchanging chapter for chapter with them….
Later
Sas
