YokoTenshi-chan - I don't have to share my DS, and even if I did I've got a spare (some insignificant part of the hinge chipped off my old one so I got a DS lite for my birthday. They both work just fine though.) I wanted to make the ultimate Eevee team, but you can't get Leafeon or Glaceon on HG/SS, and I don't want to use my Diamond version cuzz I played around with a action replay with it.

Chapter 7

I'm sure you're sick of Bridge Town, and want me to get on with the search for Lucy (which was painfully slow anyway, it's like people came easier when we didn't even know there was a need to look for them), but let me go on about it a little more anyway. I'll try to make it quick.

When I asked Juvia after we got back to the guild she got all weird and shy and wouldn't talk about it, but I managed to track Lyon down at Lamia Scale and ask him about some of his time in the other world before running into Erza. I got a whole lot more than that, or course. Which is fine. Erza only told me about her meeting Lyon and what she was up to while we were all frantically searching hoping she hadn't frozen to death.

Lyon woke up kind of like I did, in a strange place and surprised to find himself fully dressed. Unlike me, he woke up in the dump known as Bridge Town as opposed to the capital city, which had clearly been designed to look infinitely more beautiful than the rest of the world (whether it succeeded or not is debatable). Also like me, he woke up with his memories perfectly intact, so he was more than a little disturbed by having woken up in such a different place-though I'd imagine that everyone else was at least as disturbed to have woken up with no idea who they were.

Lyon's crystal bearer power was, like I said, some sort of mindreading. I actually mean mindreading, not just that thing where you hear other peoples thoughts. From how he described it he'd just see things over people's heads. Not real words, apparently, but things that, if he looked at, let him know about a person. If he focused he could find specific things about them. He managed to learn a lot about the world we were in by hanging around Bridge Town and, after that, the train station at the nearby prison and reading information from people as they walked past him.

After that he left the same route we left Bridge Town from-he said he had no money to afford a ticket with but, I don't think that Jellal ever bought tickets and I know the rest of us didn't. He passed through an open range where an ox almost ran him over and a scarecrow tried to shoot him down. I wouldn't have believed the later one if I hadn't run across the same laser-eye-beam scarecrow myself. I kid you not.

He passed up the chance to head to the capital city, which is nice because then he would have run into me and I'd have been stuck with him that whole time. Instead he took the same path as us that would have eventually led to the Vineyard. While heading that way he happened to see Juvia. When he said she stood out I joked that he had a crush on her and he slugged me and called me dense. Weirdo.

Anyway, Juvia stood out to him because of his mindready thing. I honestly didn't get much of how his power worked, but there was something about being a crystal bearer that made her pop out in a crowd. He described it as a patch of green in a painting otherwise made up of different shades of red, after all other analogies failed.

He wanted to continue to the Vineyard, having figured that she stood out not because she was a crystal bearer but because she was from the same world as him-and seeing that someone else (Lucy) was at the Vineyard he wanted to go there-but Juvia threw a fit and said she wanted to go to the guild. Sticking with her for the same reason I stuck with Jellal, he complied. They went back to Bridge Town and hopped on the nearest train to the guild. They didn't bother to get off, because they saw Erza boarding. Natsu was supposedly at the beach the same day, but maybe his brain didn't function enough to produce whatever it was that Lyon needed to see.

I stopped talking to him then to complain to Sherry about him (We've gotten along great since she stopped trying to kill me under Nirvana's influence). When I got back to him he asked me with absolutely no sarcasm if I liked her since we'd talked so long. He thought it was great because apparently she never showed interest in anyone. How can he be so dense? She only talks non-stop around him about how much he loves her. She practically stalks him. Heck, she may have rejoined that guild just because he picked it.

So after that they went to Red Leaf and were planning what to do next and figuring the odds of different people being there when they went to chase down another crystal bearer, which is when Lyon learned that crystal bearers, not people from other worlds, were what was standing out to him. I never ran into a crystal bearer who was actually from that world, so I was surprised to hear there was one.

They went back to Red Leaf because Erza and Juvia really wanted to play in a hot spring there. By the way, Juvia's power, if you couldn't guess, was control over water. Some of us experienced a change in abilities while there, or a near equivalent, while others got stuck with the same ability as always.

Erza and Juvia were enjoying themselves while Lyon was killing time nearby, which is when we passed through chasing Loke. Rather than chase after us he ran to get Erza and Juvia, who insisted on changing into something more than, I guess, the swimsuits they'd been wearing at the time. He said they took their sweet time too until he let Erza know that at least three of the people he'd seen were close friends of hers, and he told Juvia some bull story about how her lover was there too.

I guess I could have asked Erza all this, but… Well… until I find out who really named that stupid bird she keeps with her I don't really trust her to tell an accurate story. The same goes for Jellal. One of them was lying to me.

Erza and Juvia hurried up, and they got a late start tracking us. Also, since they had to climb where we had Happy, they quickly lost ground. I asked Loke when I got back to Fairy Tail how his group had made it up so fast. They'd commissioned some crystal bearer (his name rhymed with 'flail') with the same power as Happy to get them up fast.

Lyon's group only started going at the same pace as us once it got to the point where Happy had to help all those other people in exchange for directions, and lost ground again once they were still climbing while we were fighting our way to the monastery.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this already, but they camped outside and came through that monster field at the same time we were going around it to leave.

After that they didn't have the heart to go back down. Like Jellal, Juvia and Erza were absolutely against getting more than five feet from a fireplace, and Lyon wasn't too keen on the idea of more climbing. Loke had explained that we were going to find someone to restore his memoires, so they decided to just stay at the monastery and meet us when we got back.

I guess it's more Loke's fault than theirs, but did they really have to meet up with us on a god dammed cliff?

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Rune caster: I got the 10th volume of Fairy Tail. I gues Gérard's name is actually Jellal. Maybe I'll go through and change it later, but not now. I'll wait until the site changes his character name to that first.