Trick lifted easily the blonde girl up on his shoulders. She screamed a little over the sudden height but adjusted fast as she started to search on the highest shelf.
"Do you see it." he asked her as he grabbed her legged harder for steady her, she flinched a little but then she sighed and jumped easily down from his grip.
"No it wasn´t up there."
"Strange, where could it be then?"
"I have no idea. But this starting to get on my nerve…" she answered him and kicked the nearest empty bucket, making it flow over the room and right in Wendys face if she hadn´t stopped it.
"Huh? Lucy- san is that you?" she said and smiled at them with the buckets still in her high hands.
"Wendy! I´m so very sorry." Lucy hurried over to the little dragon slayer. "What are you doing here so early in the morning? Not even Mirajane is here yet."
"I´m fine, no big deal, hello Trick- san." Wendy said as she putted the bucket away on the nearest table. The guild looked like a battlefield more than usual, but the new wall was finished and painted so today they were going to clean up the guild again.
"Hi Wendy." Trick said and waved to the blue haired girl.
"Actually Mirajane asked me to come early… I wonder why she isn't her yet."
Lucy sighed as she sat down on the nearest bench, the sun had just been rising and she hadn´t realized until this morning that she lost a note last night. It was in her pockets, a note that she absolute didn´t want anybody to read. Trick had been wandering in the park and spotted the blonde and offered his help in her search. They had put all their effort in looking over the guild all morning, finding things she didn´t ever want to see like Canas underwear or Happys hidden fishbone under the sink.
"What are you guys doing here then?" Wendy said with a small giggled and wink.
"Wendy not you too. I lost something and Trick helped me looking for it, but we don't seem to find anything."
"What is it?"
"A note…"
"What does it say?"
"Uhm… nothing important, but still something I don´t want anybody to read." Lucy felt her face become a darker shade of red.
"Wendy you here! Sorry for being a bit late, I had trouble getting this one up… oh Lucy and Trick, what are you doing here, did I ask you to come?" Mirajane said and had a tired Levy next to her, but she looked brighter when she saw her best friend.
"Lucy!" Levy said and hugged the blonde stellar mage.
"Good morning Levy." Lucy smiled back at her when she sat down next to her. "How´s your morning?"
"If I could sleep some more it would be great. I´m not that big fan of early mornings but neither is you… why…"
Lucy sighed and talked fast before the question should repeat itself. "I lost a note, it´s something I would like nobody to read so if you find it could you just bring it to me?"
"But if we find it we have to read it for knowing that it´s your note." Mirajane said and started to get the bar ready.
"Yeah I guess, but swear not telling anybody and then return it to me… please?" she begged her friends that nodded light in return.
"Good, well when you already are here then you guys could help us this morning." Mirajane said with a smile.
"Yeah, why do you need Wendy and me to come here in the first place?" Levy said confused.
Mirajane gave each one a drink before she started explaining.
"Levy and Wendy are the only one I could trust helping me with this without destroying things."
"Hrmpff." Lucy said from her place.
"Yeah Lucy too of course but I expected you wanted to sleep in this morning." Mirajane said quickly to the girl.
"Yeah I would." Lucy admitted.
"Well." Mirajane continued. "The master wanted us to have a little celebration for the hard work so I would like you to help me get the place ready. We are going to have the best party Fairy Tail ever seen." Then she looked over at Lucy. "I just got an idea of what you can do."
"Damn you Mirajane." Lucy screamed and tried for the hundredth of time kick herself free. She had been stuck in this box for a several hours now, and she was tired of waiting and started to get hungry. Mirajane had easily taken the blonde girl by force and putted her away. Now she didn´t know what was going to happen. She had a small light shining through the wall splits, but other than that her surroundings were completely black and empty.
"I´m really going to kill you this time…" she said to herself and sighed. "Great I´m going insane here talking to myself. It must be the first symptom."
Big flames got her to wake up as she tried her best to avoid it´s heat, but the flames disappeared quickly and left a big hole. Lucy hurried outside just to stay nose to nose with her dragon slayer.
"Natsu." She smiled in relief and hugged him without a thought. "Thank you."
"Yeah you're welcome but it´s not like you were in any big trouble." Natsu said in her ear, she could feel his breath against her neck and quickly let him go.
"But I´ve been here for hours just because Mirajane kidnapped me and didn´t tell me why. And I could have died…"
Natsu raised one of his eyebrows.
"Yeah, of boredom, it exists." Lucy defended herself. "Why did it take you so long?"
Natsu scratch his head and was afraid that she might ask him that.
A few hours earlier
"I took something precious, and I thought that it been fun to play a game. Let´s play pirates, here is a map to the prize." Mirajane said when the males arrived to the guild. Not looking very pleased with Mirajanes new game.
"No." they said in a choir. But only to receive a wide smile from the bartender.
"But I´ve taken someone very important, and if you don´t get him or her back then something… awful might happen."
"It´s Lucy right!" Gray said bored, sitting down without a shirt.
"Gray- sama it´s too early for that." Juvia screamed with a flushed face.
"Geesh, who came up with this stupid idea?" Grey continued with a high voice, not noticing the white haired bartender started to cry behind him.
"Great Gray, you made her cry." Cana yelled at him and made Grey feel bad.
"Sorry." He stuttered scared.
"I… thought it might be fun." Mirajane said through her fingers with Erza nodding next to her.
"Who is going to get Lucy then?" Grey asked when Mirajane had run away. They all natural glared at Natsu who sat with Happy on top of the table.
"I guess it will be me then." Natsu said with a frown. "I´ll get her…" he smelled the air and relaxed a little. "Soon."
Lucy looked at him. "Really I knew Mirajane had stupid things but this takes it prize, and why did it sound like nobody were surprised over that it was me gone?"
"Because you´re the natural bait." Natsu answered easy.
"Well it didn´t have to take this long to find me, where am I anyway?" she murmured irritated.
"Below the guild." Natsu said with a smile.
"And it took you several hours?" Lucy screamed.
"Nah, more like some minutes. I got some food before I got you and the time just… rushed away when the party started."
"You let me be here half a day before you even considered getting me? Do you know how bored I was, and confused."
"You were in no danger; I could smell you right away." Natsu said and raised his hands in his defends from the angry blonde.
"Unbelievable, you really didn´t want to get me before." Lucy felt angry and hurt.
"Hey! I was the one coming to get you, nobody else didn´t want to." He noticed that it hadn´t helped him, just got everything worse.
"Great, super, fantastic." She said and tremble on her place. "Thank you very much then for taking on troublesome little me… Thank you and good bye!" then she stormed of and he could smell how she ran longer away from the guild. He sighed; this would mean more trouble for him… only the worse would be that Erza discovered Lucy in pain because of him. He gulped and hurried away, trying to catch the running stellar mage before it was too late. He looked at the note again with a light smile, he had found it there yesterday when he got home, and knew right away that it was from Lucy. It smelled Lucy miles away.
This was really going to be the best and worst party in Fairy Tails history…
What´s going to happen next? Hm, well next chapter will be longer and more fun ;D
Hope you all had a great weekend!