How is everyone today? Finally gonna start typing after some planning for both stories. Ready to read? This chapter will have someone special so get ready! (omg this was like a week ago…)

Chapter 10: Traditions and a little girl

Normal POV

Lucy smiled softly as she listened to Mira rant about which kind of cake she should make. Lucy laughed starling the dazed Mira "what is it Lucy?" she asked her without taking her eyes off the two cake batters in her hands.

Lucy just rolled her eyes giggling "you've been 'deciding' for 10 minutes now, just pick one!" Mira stood up straight sighing childishly

"It's not that easy…" Natsu strolled in their section of the store

"What's taking so long?" he glanced at Mira and the cake mixes before making an 'o' shape with his mouth. Lucy turned to Natsu "why are we going… cake shopping?" he barely addressed her as he turned away

"Ask Mira" he mumbled annoyed.

Mira sighed not looking away from the cakes in her hands "boyfriends don't diss their girlfriends like that in public" Natsu growled and turned to Lucy who was making a puppy face.

He groaned looking away from her eyes "it's_ it's like tradition"

Lucy raised a brow questioningly "tradition?" 'What tradition are they doing? Is it common? It's not uncommon to bake but in my family it isn't TRADITION to do so,' Lucy opened her mouth but Natsu clamped his hand over her mouth.

"You really like the sound of your own voice don't you?"

Lucy frowned "it's not like that"

"Yeah right" he snickered. While the two bickered Aries walked to Mira "I think the lemon flavored vanilla cake would be fine" she suggested. Mira smiled nodding. Everyone walked to a cashier when Mira stopped. "Uh… what is it Mira?" Lucy rocked a bit

"I-I…" Mira bit her lip. Lucy rose her hand to place it on her shoulder "I think maybe I should get the strawberry flavored!" Lucy hand froze mid-air and everyone groaned

"Just get the vanilla one!"

Mira shook "fine, geez…" As everyone walked out of the mall Lucy turned to Mira

"Um… where are we supposed to bake the cake?" Mira smiled at her trying deeply to suppress her excitement

"Oh, I know this place where we could use the ovens" Lucy stared at her twinkling eyes.

"And where is th-"

"What do you mean by we?" Ultear snickered. Her face sank a bit when Lucy looked like she was ready to tell a whole story. Lucy clapped her hands together and Natsu and Ultear sighed.

"All I don't mean to brag or anything but I'm the bomb at cooking, I even won national prizes upstate! I also get multiple lessons from chefs my mother hired for me! And another thing is when I was younger I…" Aries chuckled softly

"For someone who doesn't mean to brag you sure do a lot of it" Ultear rolled her eyes with a smiled when Natsu growled

"Let's just go already," Everyone rushed to place a place called,

"Bekingu?" Lucy tilted her head. As the approached the place there was multiple signs ''get out!' 'We're closed today' 'no checks allowed only cash and credit cards'… how welcoming…' Lucy read silently to herself and gulped when everyone entered inside ignoring the presence of the signs.

"Yo!" Natsu waved his hand earning the gaze of a tall man with long black hair. Lucy cringed when she noticed his many face piercings and grumpy looking face.

"Oi Salamander!" the strange man grinned fist pumping Natsu. He glanced over in Lucy's general direction "so once again ya brought the beach maid, scarecrow, and sheep… also some blondie" Lucy partly hid behind Mira as the man narrowed his eyes on her. Eventually everyone headed to the back of the store.

Lucy turned her head at a cup of hair pins 'who on earth any these many pins? Rapunzel?' Lucy giggled and secretly snagged a few 'I have a feeling I'll need these' Lucy shrugged to herself sticking two pins in her hair. I the kitchen in the place Lucy watched Mira mix the cake mix

"Do you not know how to bake without cake mix or something along the lines of that… not to be rude!" Lucy babbled. She blushed when Mira started to giggle

"Oh, it's ok, also I just want to finish quickly" Lucy studied her face and gave Mira a 'really?' look "you got me!" Mira giggled again "I just didn't want to spend too much money" Mira placed up a water gallon to measure some water but Lucy softly pushed her hands down measuring some milk

"I like to try different things when baking, using milk instead of water actually makes the cake better," Mira smiled at Lucy who. The best bakers don't copy the recipe exactly after all. Mira took the beaker from Lucy and poured the milk.

After the made the cake everyone headed back to the hotel and Mira put the cake in the mini fridge of her and Lucy's hotel room. When she noticed Lucy was snuggling in her sheets she giggled. Mira smiled placing her hands on her hips and looked down at Lucy. "We're going back outside you know"

Lucy looked up tiredly "what for?" she groaned rubbing her eyes. Mira raised up index finger up and simply stated

"It's like tradition"

Lucy got up over moaning "will anyone EVER explain to me what that means!" Mira patted Lucy's now bunless head.

"Hang in there!" she encouraged smiling. Lucy rolled her eyes sarcastically and called room service

"Um hello? Can I have a hot chocolate with extra marshmallows for room 13F please? Thank you"

A bit later Lucy squeezed her coat against her to try to gain some heat from it. She glanced at the shivering girls and then Natsu who seemed relatively warm. Lucy felt baffled at how calm he looked

"How are you not cold?" she questioned only to get a shrugged. Natsu sighed opening up his light jacket

"Natsu!" Lucy said sternly but Natsu gave her half of his attention "you shouldn't open up your jacket! Let alone wear a jacket in this weather, you'll get a cold!"

"Oh, sorry mother" Natsu replied with clear hints of sarcasm and annoyance in his voice.

Lucy puffed her cheeks rubbing her gloves against each other "I was just saying"

Lucy looked up at a probably two story building 'I wonder who lives here…' she rocked a bit and turned to Aries who was knocking on the door. Lucy squealed when as soon as the door opened mixture of strong smells entered her nose.

Aries run up to hug a busty brunette who was finishing a bottle of booze.

"Who are you place?!" she yelled pulling Aries off her. Lucy sweatdropped.

Mira shook her hand to get her attention and motioned towards everyone "it's us! Me, Mirajane, Natsu, Aries, Ultear, and this is Lucy!"

The woman thought about it and mouthed an 'o' "oh yeah!"

Natsu exhaled and lead everyone inside the person's house.

The brunette snickered "funny, this is my house but you are giving all the orders" Natsu glared at her so she put her hands up in defeat. The woman turned to Lucy who was taking breaths in her hands and smiled "you know, the smell won't kill you or anything" Reluctantly Lucy nodded uncovered her mouth.

The women smiled "Hey, I'm Cana Alberona. This is if it wasn't clear already this is MY house" she turned to Natsu who glared at her once again.

Sniffing a bit Lucy smiled a bit "I'm Lucy He…" Lucy's eyes widened at the decorated room and turned to Cana and the others.

"She sure seems fascinated" Cana mused.

"It's just like her" everyone smiled. Lucy smiled at Natsu and he rolled his eyes. They took seats on the couches in the living room and everyone started talking and laughing with each other. As everyone was talking Lucy took out her notepad she secretly kept in her pocket. 'Cana Alberona:

-loves booze

-lives in Clover

-seems to be here alone

-somehow related to Natsu and the others

-first impression: she was drunk…

-seems nice enough'

Lucy chewed on the tip of her pen as she looked up at the food that was on the big coffee table. 'Woah, that's a lot of food… wait isn't that the cake we made earlier? How did it get here? Ninjas…'

Lucy stuck her notepad in her pocket and held her stomach which threatened to rumble. "Um… not to be rude or anything but, am I going to be getting any food? Considering everyone else is getting some I mean!"

Natsu snarled but Aries got up to give her some. Lucy immediately melted after the first spoonful of rice 'yep, Mira's cooking'

Ultear crossed her legs. "Oh look, it's like she part of the family," she said slowly as if talking to children. At the comment Lucy stopped eating and stared at her.

Noticing her look of confusion Mira spoke up "you see Lucy, our 'family' has been doing this for years so it's like tradition. This dinner may mean nothing to you but to the rest of us this is really special. Lucy nodded and beamed at the thought of being a part of their family and soon frowned 'wait, why would I be happy to be in THEIR family, they're evil parent capturing kidnappers… those pedophiles…'

After a while Cana brought food into the back of the house and quickly came back "ok, that'll be for tomorrow… hey, for dinner without any beer or booze that was pretty good Mira"

Mira smiled gesturing to the blushing Lucy "don't thank me! Thank this girl right here!"

Lucy awkwardly rubbed the back of her head "if I knew a special dinner would be made out of this I would've tried to do a better job…"

Cana sipped on her beer that she got from who knows where "no, it's ok. That was really good, so thanks Lucy. Be right back guys" Cana headed to the back and Lucy narrowed her eyes on the ground, she could've sworn she heard some voices coming from where Cana just went.

'I should try to get an answer without being too direct' Lucy thought to herself. "So um… thank you all for letting me be a part of this!" everyone nodded and Cana came back.

After some failed attempts to make small talk Lucy gave up "what's in the back of the house?" Cana nearly choked on her whiskey

"Oh it's nothing! Nothing special that is, just a kitchen and a door to the basement where we keep storage" Lucy nodded not buying her story at all 'time for plan B' unknown to the others Lucy smirked mischievously.

Everyone was calmly chasing up on a few things so Lucy thought this was the time to strike. She bit her lip looking at her lap and shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Ultear turned to her and placed her face on her forehead

"What's wrong?"

Lucy looked up at her puffing her cheeks "I REALLY have to use the bathroom…"

"Thank you for sharing! That's not at all disgusting" Natsu waved her off "just go," Lucy got up and speed walked out of the room

'I could always say I got lost because I don't know the place!'

In the back there was a room with light coming from inside

'Hmm… from afar I wouldn't have noticed the light shining from this room… what's inside?'

She grabbed the doorknob and turned it but it was locked. Lucy quickly removed one of the carefully tucked bobby pins in her hair and tried to open the door with no success

'This always works in the movies!' Lucy pouted

"Hello?" a small voice whispered, barely audible to Lucy. "Is that you Cana?"

Lucy panicked and fiddled with her fingers then burped "yo! Uh… open the door bro! Yeah," 'since when did Ms. Cana ever talk like that?!"

Lucy sighed when there was a pause of silence but to her surprised the door opened. There was a little girl in a casual white and blue striped dress and her long hair in 2 ponytails.

She gasped pointing childishly "you're not Cana" she whispered not realizing she was still pointing. Lucy shook her head bending down to match the short girl's height.

"No no… Hello; I'm Lucy," she giggled softly pushed the girl's -hand which was still pointing—down.

The little girl gasped again biting her lip. She glanced behind Lucy then mumbled

"I'm Wendy"

Guess what? I read the whole chapter over for spelling mistakes!

Yeah yeah, it's been a while. And no I did not disappear, I was here the whole time!

Still a bit behind so wait another week for TOTHTDWM at most (right…)

If you were wondering 'Bekingu' is the Japanese word for bake or baking (one of the two)

The milk instead of water for cake thing isn't made up, I like to bake and I usually put carnation milk instead of water (tastes really good ^.^)

And lastly the beach maid= Mira, scarecrow= Ultear, and sheep= Aries (I just randomly thought of it when picking nicknames :p)

Follow, favorite, and review please!

I just added this to address something! I got a guest review asking if Wendy was the one in the cage earlier in this fanfic. The answer is yes! I don't know if you'll see this, I hope you do. I would normally pm people to answer questions but my laptop isn't working and I can't login, heck, I'm using my TABLET to type this... so sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully I will be able yo update TOTHTDWM...

Ciao!

Chapter: Chapter 11: Talking to Wendy