Chapter 10

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"What are you doing here in Margaret?" Lyon asks pushing his icy white hair out of his eyes.

Rin stands up and brushes the dust and dirt off of her leggings. "Thanks. I was just helping Gray and Juvia solve their marital issues."

"T-they-re married?" Lyon exclaims, taken aback.

"Hahahaha. Yeah, no. It's a joke. A J-O-K-E," she tells him.

Lyon averts his eyes and twiddles his thumbs. "Well, um, while you're here in Maragaret Town, would you like a tour?

"Depends," she says eyeing him. "Are you planning on jumping me?"

He shakes his head fast and furiously. "No."

"Okay then. I guess I'll take you up on that offer since you DID save me from those thugs," she says.

"Great, let's go down to the river first," he says quickly looping his arm through Rin's and starts to walk.

Rin opens her mouth to protest, but decides against it. One time couldn't hurt. Besides, he already said that he wouldn't jump her. And if her did, she would just kill him. She did have a knife hidden in the sleeve of her shirt.

As they walk down the road several people greet him.

"Lyon, what's up?"

"Done any missions lately?"

"Great job on your S-class mission! I've heard a lot about it!"

Rin looks up at him. "Are you like famous, or something?"

"Not really," he answers humbly.

An old lady with a basket of flowers hobbles over. "Lyon, it's nice to see you again."

"Granny Hana! You shouldn't be out of bed!" He exclaims while quickly unlooping his arm from Rin's and rushes over to the old lady to support her.

She laughs lightly. Not a cackle like some people might have expected, but her laugh sounded more like silver bells. "I'm fine, i'm fine," she assures him and takes a look at me. "Is this your girlfriend Lyon?"

"I wish," he mumbles to himself. "No Granny, this is a friend of mine. Her name is Rin Fullbuster."

"That's too bad. I'm going to make sure that I live to see the birth of your first child, I swear," she pauses for a moment and plucks a flower from her basket. "For the lovely young lady that I pray will marry Lyon. He needs someone to make sure that ghis head stays attached to his shoulders," she laughs again and gets on her tiptoes to place a single blue orchid (for Lisa who has nothing to do with this story, but loves this flower,) in Rin hair.

Rin blushes. "Oh, um, I'm not really thinking about marriage right now," she says flustered.

"Oh yes, but come the day that he asks you, I hope that you'll deeply consider. He's a fine young. He might be arrogant and a little stupid, but I'm sure he'd make you happy," she whispers into Rin's ear.

Rin blushes even more. "Oh, um, okay, I guess."

"I'll be on my way now, I hope that you like the flower," Granny Hana says to her and walks away.

"Oh, um, yes! I like the flower very much! It's beautiful!"

Lyon loops his arm through Rin's again and they walk through the market. "Granny Hana took care of me for a while when I first joined Lamia Scale."

"Really? She must be very special to you," she says smiling up at him who replies with a blush.

"She is."

They walk in silence for a few minutes when Rin begins to eye some delicious, fresh, hot, steamed pork buns that make her mouth water.

"Are you hungry?" Lyon asks her.

She shakes her head slightly. "Not really," she lies. Then, her stomach rumbles loudly, ratting her out.

"I'll take half a dozen, please," before she can stop him, Lyon is pulling out his wallet and buying some.

She takes firm hold of his shoulder. "You don't have to buy me any. I'm just fine."

"Really? Well, the thought never actually occured," he smiles slightly. "I'm buying them because I'm hungry, but you can have some if you want."

"I'll pass," she replies feeling foolish. When he offers her half, she swallows her pride -remembering her forgotten-at-home wallet- and gladly eats them.

"How about a boat ride next?" he asks her.

She, once again, stubbornly shakes her head no. "I don't want to trouble you anymore."

"Oh, it's no problem, really. Mr. Jacos owes me a small favor anyways since I helped repair his boat last month," he shrugs and shoves his hands into his pockets. "It really is no problem. I don't really enjoy going on boat rides alone anyways."

"Okay then. I take your word for it," Rin eyes him and without thinking, walks close and holds onto his well muscled arm, nearly hugging it. "Thanks Lyon."

Lyon blushes, but keeps walking, not wanting her to let go.

They stand in front of a small house half way on stilts above the water with a sign that says 'gondola rides'.

Lyon gently knocks on the door and a short, pudgy man with thining salt-and-pepper hair comes out. "Hello Lyon," he says with a big cigar in his mouth.

"Hi Mr. Jacos. You busy today?" asks Lyon politely. "If you're not I was wondering about your mentioning of a free boat ride, possibly?"

He chuckles. "Of course, anything for my favorite Lyon. My ride for the next hour was canceled due to none of my buisness. Hop on," he says motioning to a lovely cherry wood gondola with gold trimmings. "I'll call Skye over to give your ride."

A pretty girl with bright blue eyes and blonde hair appears in the door wearing a short, blue sundress to match her eyes and white lacy italian pumps. "Oh, Lyon!"

"Hi Skye," Lyon greets her and she attempts to throw her arms around his neck, but he grabs her hips and holds her far away.

"Lyonnn-tannnnnn. I wuvv youuu," she says with a muffled voice as Lyon keeps his palm firmly bewtween them on Skye's cheek to prevent her from kissing him.

"I told you, Skye. I have somebody I like already. Besides, you're what- 7th grade?"

Is she talking about me? Rin asks her self inside her head with a blush creeping across her face. She shakes her head furiously, trying to clear the thought of her head.

Skye gives up and folds her arm. "Is she, the one over there, the mystery girl?" she asks resentfully as she struts over to Rin. She circles around her like a vulture, looking her up. "Well, she's not bad, I guess. But she doesn't wear very cute clothes. What's with the long sleeved shirt and the boots. Are you hiding something?" she asks taking ahold of Rin's hand.

Reflexively, she slaps her hand away.

Skye just looks at Rin with her bright blue eyes narrowed. "You are hiding something... Oh well. Hop on. Let's go on a fun ride!"

She hops into the boat and beckons to them with her hand. Lyon gets into the first. Rin cautious moves to jump in the boat, but at the last second when she is mid air the boat lurchs. She squeezes her eyes shut. Oh no! I can't swim what am I going to do? But then, she feels her feet on solid ground she opens her eyes and Lyon hands are on her waist and he caught her in mid air.

"Thanks," she says sitting down and dipping her hand peacefully into the water. She stares at her reflection and Lyon comes up behind her. She stares at their reflection in the water as the boat begins to move as Skye start to use her water magic.

They pass white camellia petals in the water and roses. For a moment the camellia almost resemble a white wedding dress and the roses a bouquet along with a blue orchid wreath on her head. She pulls back quickly from her reflection. What was that?

"Should we go look for her?" Juvia asks with concern.

Gray shrugs. "She should be fine. Plus, we're in Margaret Town and Lyon has some sort of psychic sense when she's around. Worse comes to worse, she'll summon a spirit to help her."

"Ummm. Gray-sama?" Juvia asks nervously.

"What is it Juvia?" he asks nonchalantly as they walk down the street.

She looks up at him. "Does Rin-sama have a good sense of direction?"

"I dunno," he shrugs again. "Why do you ask?"

"Ummm. That's because, well, you see," she fumbles for the right words."

"Just spit it out, Juvia!" he snaps at her.

Her lower lip trembles. "Well, Gray-sama. We're going in the wrong direction," she says quietly.

"I knew that," he says flushing crimson and turning the other way.

They walk in quiet for a little way when Gray turns around to realize that he's lost her. Suddenly he hears a shriek that sounds just like Juvia.

He runs back in the direction of which he came cursing. She was corned by three, very, very, very, drunk men. "Get away from Juvia. Juvia's heart, body, and soul belong to Gray-sama. Not anyone else!"

"Are you this lil' beauty's boyfriend?" they turn to Gray and ask him.

He stares at them. "No," he answers flatly.

"Then I guess that you won't mind if we take her off your hands for a little while," one of them who had many golden teeth fillings, a nearly bald head, and a large, halfway exposed belly due to his too-small shirt says raising eyebrows in a suggestive manner.

Gray sighs in exasperation. "Most definitely not," he says taking them all out with one round-house kick with a domino effect on the three. He grabs her in a tight headlock. "At this moment, I need her. I can't do this job without a partner and I guess that she'll just have to do," he says dragging her down the street.

Juvia could've sworn that she saw Lyon and Rin kissing by a Steamed Pork Bun Stand. (When it was actually just her completely overactive imagination where they were just looping arms.)

Thanks for reading and reviewing. I will be gone from Sunday, August 2th to Friday August 7th and will not be able to update.

Personal Note

HAHAHAHAHA Lisa, how was that for a long chapter? It was about 3-5 times longer than usual :)))))))))