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*Lisanna's p.o.v*
"Master," Loki spoke up looking like he was about to cry. "Lucy's gone."
"What?" I cried out bringing my hand up to cover my mouth in horror.
"Is Asuka-chan okay?" Juvia asking the same horrified look falling on her features at the meaning of his words. Oh god if anything bad has happened to those two I swear I'm going to find whoever did it and scratch them to pieces.
"Asuka is safe and sound with Aries in the spirit world. She is somewhat shaken and scared though but otherwise yep she's unharmed. Lucy made it her top priority to keep her safe." Loki explained pushing his glasses back up his nose. "But I suggest you call her parent back here immediately as she is calling for them.
"We've been trying but they just keeping saying their missions been delayed, it's the same over and over," I said to Loki, annoyed that Al and Bisca could leave their daughter for so long and not seem to care. "But more importantly right now why is she in the spirit world?"
"One of the bandits started using explosion magic And the minute Lucy saw this she ordered Aries to take Asuka with her and go back to spirit world in an attempt to keep the girl safe." Loki answered with pride, at just how amazing his master was. I had to admit I'd never fully realised until now just how far my friend was willing to go to protect her comrades. It made me glad to know that if I ever needed her then she would be there for me no matter what and I intended to do the same. Lucy and I had become even closer in the last week, since the incident with Natsu. Which had surprised me considering I was the person who held the affections of the man she loved. I thought something like that would have affect our friendship in a negative way but nope.
When I'd asked her about this she had merely told me 'How can I ever get upset over something I have no control over and anyway I would never let a guy come between me and one of my closests friends'. I felt my eyes starting to well up at the memory. We needed to save Lucy!
"But why was Lu-chan taken? With Asuka safe surely she could have fought freely?" Levy asked her voice shaking. It was a valid point.
"Capricorn took a critical blast just after Asuka and Aries disappeared to save Lucy and before she could summon someone else they grabbed her and tied her up with magical restricting rope, from what Virgo is telling me." Loki grumbled obviously annoyed with the fact he wasn't helping his mistress. This was not good on so many levels but there may be a silver lining to this as Lucy had a secret weapon in her arsenal.
"Can you sense where Lucy is?" Gramps spoke up for the first time, after taking in all the relevant information.
"What do you take me for gramps, course I can." Loki scoffed clearly insulted. We all just raised our eyebrows at the lion waiting for him to spill her location.
"She's about two towns over to the west I'd say probably in a dark guild holding area towards the woods of the town..."He trailed off from his pinpoint location explanation and his face took on a funny look as if someone was saying something to him telepathically. Ah that must be Virgo.
"Loki.." Levy started to question him about why he'd suddenly stopped, but Loki putting his hand up silenced her immediately. We all waited impatiently for him to finish whatever the hell kind of conversation was going on in his head and then for him to return to talking to us...what we didn't expect was for him to burst out laughing at whatever had been said to him. Huh, why is he laughing when Lucy could be in serious trouble?
"Loki," Gramps barked at the spirit clearly getting to end of his patience.
"I'm sorry that's just...it's just...haha," Well clearly he found something funny about this serious situation.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" Came a roar from the guild doors..I knew that voice; Natsu had arrived.
"Natsu just in time come up here, NOW," Gramps ordered the dragon slayer, who obeyed just like a good little puppy. I turned my attention back to Loki who had apparently snapped out of his fit after hearing the dragon's roar. He turned his head to watch the man ascending the stairs with a look of disdain clear across his handsome face. Ah so he does know about what happened. But this was a golden opportunity to try and make Natsu see sense about Lucy.
"Lucy was attacked and taken in the forest," I told the pyro as he stepped onto the top floor, ignoring all the fixed looks I was getting. What? This was a great chance to make him realise just how much Lucy actually meant to him, even if the guy was an idiot. I wasn't gonna let this chance slip by to make my matchmaking plans a success.
"Then why are you all just stood here! And why is he not beside her helping!" Natsu shouted pointing at Loki.
"Same could be said to you, Natsu." Loki said his name like it was a nasty taste in his mouth, but it had the desired effect of shutting the Pyro up and making him paler. Hmm Natsu was now permanently pyro in my head now...must be spending too much time with Bixlow. Speaking of which where is my partner in crime?
"Okay everyone we are getting off topic, why were you laughing Loki-san," Juvia said trying to gain everyone's attention.
"Oh about that, I don't think we have to worry too much about Lucy we just need to send a team to pick her up and help her collect her reward money." Loki chuckled at our clueless expressions.
"Explain!" Master commanded.
"Okay okay," Loki sighed "Virgo was telling me that the bandits made the wrong choice of pissing Lucy off..big time."
"What did they do? Lu-chan is usually so calm and nice," Levy asked. I had to agree it usually took the destructive tendencies of her teammates to make her angry.
"You've obviously never seen scary Lucy, she's terrifying," Natsu muttered remembering the amount of times Lucy had gotten mad at him.
"In their words; this is that weak celestial mage with the crappy spirits that couldn't do anything at the grand magic games." Loki immediated. We all gasped, oh yes definitely the wrong words to say to Lucy, you never insult her spirits, insult her all you want but never her spirits or you are a dead man!
"Oh," Levy and Juvia murmured, Gramps shook his head and I sighed...Pyro again was a dense idiot.
"But why don't we need to worry about her?" He asked puzzled. A collective sigh followed his question.
"Because Lucy most certainly went bat crap insane on them and beat them to a pulp," I glared at Natsu. "Am I right?"
"She did one better," Loki smiled at me. "She cast Uranometria by herself to wipe them out in one hit!"
We all just looked at him blinking at what he had just told us, so Lucy had mastered the ultimate spell of the stars and without Gemini too. I was so proud!
*Lucy's p.o.v*
Well that would prove those jerks wrong! My spirits aren't weak and neither am I. Since the grand magic games I've trained my ass off to increase my magical and physical power. Gramps and my spirits are teaching me light and star magic so that if my keys are ever taken from me again, I can fight without them. But for me that will be a last resort as I love my spirits too much to ever treat them as secondary magic!
Loki, Capricorn and Gray have been helping to increase my physical abilities and boy had it paid off. I was really proud of myself not only had I kept Asuka safe but I had managed to look after myself without Natsu's help..I felt a pang in my heart as I remembered all the times I had relied on my best friend to save me. No more I was new and improved Lucy who could stand beside her teammates to fight, not just stand behind them and rely on their strength all the time.
Well enough time spent feeling proud of myself now to tie these thugs up and find a way to turn them into the authorities and see if they have a reward out on them...I hope they do, then this would make a slightly crappy start to my day turn into a good day. I could also treat Asuka to something for being so brave during the whole ordeal,I hope. Oh I had better check with Aries and see if Asuka is alright.
~Aries is Asuka okay?~ I mentally asked, as I brushed my hand over her key.
~I'm sorry, she is alright~ Aries replied.
~Please don't say 'I'm sorry' at the beginning of a sentence like that you'll give people a heart attack~ I chided my loveable friend.
~I'm sorry~ Aries whimpered. Jeez what was I going to do with her. ~Are you going to call me and Asuka back out now?~
~Can you just wait a little longer. I don't want to bring her to where I am right now things could still get dangerous~ I explained my concerns to Aries.
~No worries Asuka seems to be enjoying pulling the spirit kings mustache anyway~ Aries replied before signing off. Ah heavens alive, I would have to apologise to him later for Asuka's behaviour. Thought it's a good thing the guy likes me. Now to get these guys to the authorities and them myself home as soon as possible, but how to do that? Hmm Capricorn is out of commision for a while and Loki is still at the guild...Taurus is a good bet but who else could help me carry these guys back to the nearest town...I've got it.
"Open gate of the bull, Taurus. Open gate of the Twins, Gemini." I called watching the bright flash of lights, that signaled the arrival of my spirits.
"What can I do for Lucy-san's nice booooody today," Taurus mooed with hearts in his eyes. I am so not in the mood for this kind of sexual harassment right now!
"Taurus start rounding up as many bandits as you can carry, Gemini turn into Elfman and do the same and I'll get the rest," I said with a smile as I saw Gemini poof into Elfman's identical twin. "Okay guys lets go!"
-timeskip-
I had been right, the group as a whole had a reward of 900,000 jewels, that was enough to cover my rent for the next year WOOHOO! and I'd still have some left over. Thank you idiotic bandits for kidnapping and enraging me enough to knock you all out on my own without help! I can spend the next year saving up my reward money from jobs without worrying as much about been kicked outta my apartment. Now all I need is to find a decent boyfriend and I am set...boyfriend huh? I felt depressed thinking about that. I still really wanted Natsu to be my boyfriend but that looked impossible seeing as he already liked someone else. No do not get depressed girl, I shall not spoil my good mood getting depressed over my idiotic teammate and best friend. I won't. It can't be helped if he likes Lisanna after all they grew up together, but seeing as Lisanna is with Bixlow now and they are both happy together...maybe just maybe I have a chance at making Natsu see me in that kind of way.
"Lucy-san is that you?"
I turned my head in the direction of the person who had called my name, to get a surprise.
"Sting, Rogue what are you guys doing here?" I called and waved at them. Since Minerva and the old Master of Sabertooth had disappeared our guilds were now getting along rather well.
"We could ask you the same thing," Sting pointed out grinning at me. Hmm he has a nice grin it makes him look much cuter than that weird scowl he usually wears.
"Yeah guess you're right sorry," I blushed slightly in embarrassment. "But anyway I wouldn't expect to run into you guys here, you working?"
"Yeah we decided to come take out the group of bandits that are lurking around here the rewards pretty nice too," Sting again grinned at me. Oops look like they won't be getting paid for this one, oh dear.
"Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you're a little too late to the party fellas," I giggled watching Stings face fall and Rogue shift to his other foot.
"How so?" Rogue muttered, finally speaking up.
"I already collected the reward," I beamed in amusement as Sting and even the usually emotionless Rogue both gaped at me in bewilderment.
"Yo...you did..but...how? I mean...I can't..smell the rest of your team" Sting stuttered. How rude I am tough damn it!
"Well I didn't do it on purpose, I got kidnapped by those bandits and they made the mistake of pissing me off," I growled letting my dark aura surround me. Both dragons gulped at this new scary side of me they were seeing. That'll show them not to underestimate me.
"Aw well too bad, guess we'll go back and get a new job hey Rogue." Sting said turning to see his partners response, which was a simple nod.
"Well it was nice to se..."
"LUCY!" Several people yelled from the distance...
I turned to see who was making all the noise, that was a fatal mistake because as I turned several blurs shot forward and glomp me to the ground.
"Hey guys," I wheezed, seeing as I'd just had all the air knocked outta me.
"Juvia was so worried about Lucy-san," Juvia sobbed. Wow I guess Juvia really has given up on me being her love rival.
"I'm...fine...," I wheezed again feeling my soul start to leave my body as everyone crushed me to death.
"Lu-chan,"Levy squealed from where she lay on top of me. Okay you'd think I'd died or something, this was ridiculous.
"Guys get off me, being crushed here!" I grumbled at them and thankfully they took the hint and climbed off of me.
"I see the fairy's are as lively as ever," Sting chuckled holding his sides as he took in the site in front of him. Crap I'd forgotten he was still here.
"Yeah," Rogue replied. Hmm he took not talking to a higher level than Gajeel did interesting. I tipped my head back from where I was still laying on the floor to shoot the two guys a mega bright Lucy special smile. What did they expect we were Fairy Tail after all.