Chapter 10: You're Joking Right?

Hello again my lovely readers! I'm so happy to finally be giving you chapter 10. I really hope you enjoy this chapter; it goes back to see what's happening at the guild and also shows Lucy's intense training. I'm saying intense because I'm not going to sugar coat it, let's be honest Lucy is far from S-Class and needs to get her ass in gear. So besides the fact, thank you for reading this far and for all your wonderful reviews! It means a lot to me that you guys are really enjoying my story. So the shout outs to those who reviewed chapter 9 include:
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Now on with the fic!

RECAP:

"Yeah I understand. So when do we start?" I said.

"Now, let's go" Laxus told me then got up and headed outside. I picked up Ryuu and headed out to catch up to Laxus.

CURRENT TIME (Lucy's POV):

Laxus led us back to our hotel room and told Ryuu and me to pack up my belongings because weren't coming back. I figured he was going to take us up to the mountains in the forest to train. After my fight if you could even call it that, with Aoi it showed me just how much power I lacked. I knew I needed to take this training seriously in order for me to participate in the S-Class trials. Once Ryuu and I had finished putting my supplies in my big blue duffle pack we headed into the living room.

"Okay you all set?" Laxus asked us when he noticed our arrival in the living room.

"Yep, everything's all packed and ready to go just like you told us too." I told him.

"Good, we'll stay here tonight and leave early in the morning. How's that sound?" He questioned me.

"It sounds great, but where exactly are we going?" I wondered.

"There's a small clearing deeper inside the forest, it is right next to a stream and is also the perfect distance from the mountains. You'll be able to run laps, mediate, and whatever else I want you to do, perfectly there." He voiced to me.

"That sounds wonderful, but what should we do right now?" I asked.

"Well we have all afternoon so I guess we should enjoy the resort while we still have it." Laxus said with a genuine smile.

"Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh can we go to the aquarium and the amusement park?" Ryuu asked hopping around smiling.

3RD PERSON POV:

With that Laxus and Lucy spent the entire day looking at way too many fish to count and riding all the rides little Ryuu wanted to go on. To anyone that looked at them they seemed like a small family having fun together. They ate nothing but junk food and did just about everything the exceed asked for. The resort was now overflowing with people and they decided to call it a day. Ryuu had just fallen asleep in Lucy's arms from his 8 hours of 'family play.' Laxus checked about three times to make sure of his cats slumber.

"Let's take him to that little daycare that they have inside the resort. He'll be able meet new friends and sleep there. Then we can go have dinner." Laxus spoke.

"Mm okay, you think he'll be fine." Lucy asked Laxus.

"I know he will be. With his personality he can make anyone like him." Laxus said with a laugh.

Then both Lucy and Laxus made their way back to the resort and went straight to the children's daycare.

"Hello there you two, my name is Miss Mallory, how may I help you? Did you want me to watch the little guy you have there?" the lady at the counter asked.

"Actually that was what we wanted. The both of us wanted to go out to dinner just the two of us." Laxus told the lady.

"Oh okay that shouldn't be a problem at all. You two just enjoy your selves don't rush you can come pick him up anytime. However we do close at midnight, so that's the latest you'll have to enjoy your 'us' time, is that alright?" Miss Mallory told them.

They both looked at the clock behind the counter and noticed it was only 7. They figured that 6 hours would be plenty of time. So Lucy signed Ryuu in before waking him up and telling him where they were going. After that they took their leave and went back up to the hotel room.

"We are going to a really nice restaurant so dress decent." Laxus told Lucy. Lucy nodded her head and then went into her room then picked up her bag and headed into the bathroom. She decided to take a quick shower because she felt she smelled bad from running around everywhere with Ryuu. Once she was done with her quick shower she dried herself off before rummaging through her bag trying to decide which dress to choose. Finally she decided on a floor length black dress with diamond beads coving the dress. She felt that the dress made her look like she was wearing stars in the night sky. Lucy quickly slipped on a pair of black heels and made sure to secure her whip and keys on a garter bound on her upper right leg hidden under the dress. She then lightly curled a few strands of hair, leaving most of it straight. Lucy studied herself in the mirror and felt that she was finally ready. She looked at the clock located on the wall in the bathroom and saw she used up 30 minutes of their time to get ready. Lucy frantically started to gather all her things in her bag and ran out of the bathroom. She quickly set her bag on her bed and went to search for Laxus.

LAXUS'S POV:

I had already gotten dressed in my black button up vest and random dress shirt. I didn't know how fancy Lucy was going to be so I decided to go more semi-formal. Either way I knew I looked damn nice. I was currently waiting in one of the seats located in our hotel room with my sleeves rolled up and a good book in my hands. I started hearing movement in the bedroom letting me know Lucy had probably finished getting ready. I looked up as I heard the door open. As my eyes finally set on Lucy's stunning figure I felt as though my mouth would literally fall open. She was drop dead sexy and I wanted her all to myself.

"Wow, Lucy you look gorgeous." I told her.

"You like." She said with a smile followed by a twirl.

"I love. Now let's get going before I demolish you here instead." I said with a smirk making her face go crimson. She took a deep breath before thinking of how to reply to the man. She looked up at him not sure of when she looked towards the floor in the first place and smirked.

"Well Mr. Cocky you sure are assure of yourself. What makes you think I would even let you come close to doing that?" She said.

"Oh I know you would let me." I whispered in her ear after taking a few steps towards her. All she did was blush and look up at me. I took the opportunity and grabbed her hand before leading her towards the door. Once we got there I looked back at her and noticed she was still frozen.

"You know we can always just stay here and enjoy ourselves." I said.

"You don't know how badly I want to say yes to that." She replied back.

"Then why don't you? We can always order room service. We can order lamb or scallops with vegetables…. the desert will be you." I said turning around. She looked up at me and gulped. I could practically hear her heart beating out of her chest.

"I'd hate to say it but I think I've actually fallen for you. Your definitely one of the cockiest people I've ever met yet my mind goes fuzzy whenever I'm near you. You're charismatic but also arrogant. You've already gotten me this strong without even lifting a finger and I can tell you care for me. The only thing stopping me from letting myself fall into your arms is the fact that I'm afraid this will be all over the second I give myself to you. I want a real relationship and I don't know if the great Laxus Dreyer is ready for an actual relationship. My whole time with you, you've protected me and we've flirted with one another. I've loved it all, I'm just afraid Laxus. I don't want this to be a one night thing." She said throwing herself on my chest.

"Lucy…" I felt every word she said go straight into my heart. I didn't want her to feel that way. I want to love her, show her that I won't ever leave her. I knew it would take a lot of time to persuade her completely but I'm willing to try. I know I can be a real ass but the one person I can never hurt is her. During the fantasia incident I was only joking about wanting her to me my girl and then I would stop the fighting, but after everything had calmed down and I was back in Fairy Tail I started to think about what would happen had she said yes. I started to actually think about her instead of just a woman with a nice rack. It was then that I knew I wanted to try and get to know her. I then lifted up her chin to get her to look at me.

"Lucy." I said. I didn't want her to have these feelings. I slowly leaned my head down and captured her lips. Her lips were warm and soft. I held her close to me, yet very gentle as if she would break.

BACK IN MAGNOLIA (GRAY'S POV):

Juvia and I had just finished our month long mission that gramps had asked us to do and were now returning to Fairy Tail. As we were walking down the path leading to our infamous guild I started to wonder if anything significant had happened during our leave. I wondered if the guild was still intact or if my fellow guild mates had destroyed yet another building. My mind began to wander from guild member to guild member but finally stopped on one particular Celestial Spirit Mage. I was actually shocked when that idiot flame brain disbanded Team Natsu, but was even more shocked in the way he had done it. It's unbelievable that he didn't even notice Lucy's feelings for him. He broke her heart and then left without a care in the world. I felt horrid that the person I thought of as little sister locked herself away in her apartment refusing to talk to anyone. I knew that I should have stayed and tried to get Lucy to come out but gramps made me go on a mission to pay my rent saying that Lucy would come out when she was ready. He didn't understand anything though. He had no idea our team broke up, let alone know of Lucy's feelings towards our guild Flame Dragon slayer. I tried for two whole weeks to get her out but she would listen. Then all of a sudden right before I leave Lucy comes out of her apartment and takes a mission. I was beyond stunned. She said absolutely nothing to anyone. She came and left, just like that. I didn't even get the chance to talk to her. I needed to know if she was really alright. 'Lucy… I hope you're doing okay' I thought. I hated leaving her. I tried several times to get the old man to change his mind but he wouldn't budge. My thoughts then lingered to Erza. I wonder if Erza ever found out what happened to Lucy let alone Team Natsu. Erza was just as stunned as me that Lucy took a solo mission after locking herself up for a month, but she never got to learn the truth. We never got the chance to announce that Team Natsu had broken up. For all I knew, no one but the members present inside Lucy's apartment actually knew. Natsu went on his two month 'no physical actions needed' mission with Lisanna and should be back in one week. The mission was to help rebuild a library that had been destroyed by dark mages. I laughed at the thought of Natsu rebuilding a building instead of destroying it. Right after Lucy left on her mission, Erza had gone out on yet another emergency mission that gramps sent her on for the council. I hope that she found out about the ending of our team so that she could have kicked Natsu's ass before he left. Natsu really could have done the 'Team Natsu is over' thing a lot more kindhearted than the way he did. But then again I hope Erza didn't find out, she would have skinned me for letting Lucy stay in her apartment for as long as she did now knowing why Lucy had sealed herself away in the first place. I didn't even want to begin to think about what she would do to me, knowing I let her go on that mission alone after what happened, especially because Erza also felt like she was an older sibling to the Celestial Spirit Mage and too knew how Lucy felt about the flame-brain.

My thoughts were interrupted by the rain woman standing beside me; "Gray-sama don't worry, Juvia believes Love-Rival is already back to her old self and is sitting in front of Mira drinking her milkshake, gossiping back at the guild."

"Thanks Juvia" I told her.

"Juvia thanks Gray-sama for the praise. Juvia doesn't like to see Gray-sama so sad even if it's about Love-Rival. Juvia will stop at nothing to cheer up Gray-sama" Juvia said. I smiled at my partner and noticed we had arrived in front of the guild doors. 'Please let Juvia be right' I thought before pushing the doors open to my second home. Juvia and I walked inside the guild, dodging the chairs that were flying from the small brawls that were going on. We heard the "Welcome Backs" and "Congratulations" from our fellow guild mates at we made our way over to where Erza and Mira were chatting away. I took a seat next to Erza and asked Mira if she would get me a beer. I looked around the guild and Lucy was nowhere to be seen.

"Tell me she's not stuck back in her apartment." I asked the women as Mira placed my drink in front of me.

"Oh on the contraire, she's already out on another mission" Mira said almost making my eyes bulge out of my head.

"You're Joking Right?" I practically yelled at the pair.

"No, what Mira speaks is the truth Gray. She really is out on a mission." Erza said taking a bite out of the strawberry cake sitting in from of her.

"Tell me she's not out there alone, again." I demanded.

"No she's not alone, Laxus is with her. Master had given him an S-Class mission and he asked her to go with him, which she accepted. They should be back within the next two weeks." Mira said with hearts in her eyes, probably imagining little Blond hair blue eyed babies.

"Well shit…" I said.

"Gray… what exactly made her lock herself away? I never did figure it out. Once she came out and arrived at the guild I tried to confront her but Laxus interrupted us and said she had secrets of her own and would tell me when she's ready. I fully respect that but I have a feeling something happened. I also don't understand why you were so angry when we called you over the lacrima and told you she had gone on a mission alone. I mean yes I understand the dangers of going alone but the way you acted was very frantic. I as well don't know why Natsu and Lisanna aren't allowed to go on physical missions anymore. I do understand that it's probably for the best for Natsu, but why Lisanna too. No one around here can seem to answer my questions so I'm hopping you'll be able too. Even Master refuses to tell me, he says it's not for him to tell." Erza said looking at me with sorrow in her eyes.

"Erza, it's hard for me to explain but basically Team Natsu kind of ended that one morning when you got a call on the lacrima to go on the emergency mission for the council. Natsu, being the insensitive jerk that he is said that he was going to be going on mission with just Lisanna because she was his original partner. He also revealed that the two we dating and he also mentioned that Lucy was weak. I of course don't believe that and neither do you, but hearing him say the things he did must have killed Lucy inside. That is why she locked herself away." I said looking down at my now empty glass.

"Now it is you that must be joking right?" Erza said looking completely stunned.

"I really wish so Erza, I really do." I told her.

This is the end of chapter 10! I hope you all enjoyed! Sorry for cutting off my LaLu kiss, but I couldn't resist a cliffhanger! Please look back up at the top for all the announcements if you did not already read them. Thank you all for sticking with me this long! I hope to see you all again next week.

Next Chapter: Love Pandemonium (look it up if you don't know what it means!) It will be posted September 29.