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Cana's P.O.V.
In my dream, he was dead. My master, who took in my weak self and made me stronger, was lying in his back, lifeless eyes staring into the ceiling. They were widened in shock, and even though I knew it was all a dream, I felt a pang in my heart.
The girl was there, too. I don't know who she is, but I know she's Masters murderer. Her long dark cloak kept me from seeing anything. But her ragged breaths were hard enough for me to see her chest move, even through her cloak. And by the way the hair covering her face moved with her gasps, she was almost as far gone as my master.
Curious, I moved her hair back. It wasn't anyone I recognized. Well... Correction: she seemed familiar, but I didn't know her name. Her eyes, which I knew should have been easy to see through, we're hard and refusing me of my right to her memories. Memories are the window to the soul.
Yeah, well, she's pulled the shades.
She gasped one more time and struck out at me. To say I was surprised is an understatement. She was practically dead! But, I thought as I dodged a swing from her dagger, so am I if I don't focus.
Quickly, I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, I was staring at the ceiling of my room. I pushed up in my bed, sweating. With my cards, seeing the future in my dreams wasn't odd, but I'd never seen master's death before. And this girl... It's killing me that I can't remember her. I know I know her, but... Who is she?
Chalice P.O.V.
They're overreacting. I thought as they paced around.
We were in Lucy's room at the mansion. I was sitting next to her on her bed. Lucy was bandaged and medicated, bruised, broken, and not waking up anytime soon. Erza sat in a chair next to my us, brooding. I don't know if she's angry about Lucy getting hurt, or her not being there to prevent it, but really, it doesn't matter, it doesn't change the overall effect.
Erza was pissed.
Gray and Natsu were fighting, but as I had warned them not to break Lucy's room, they kept it limited to verbal insults. Rei was downstairs cooking dinner. I wasn't aware that he could cook, but, hey, who cares, as long as it's edible. I'm a teenager; I eat more than I breathe.
Sting and Rogue were asleep. They'd yelled themselves to sleep. I've never seen anyone fight the way they fought once we got here. I won't go all flashback on you, because most of the words they used would make your ears bleed.
They were quiet and straight faced the whole way home, with Sting carrying Lucy and Rogue supporting Natsu, who had injured himself being an idiot. The second we got here, they sent Erza upstairs with Lucy and battled it out until they couldn't move. Stings face was distorted with anger, and, though his face remained stoic, I knew Rogue was just as angry.
I hadn't realized they were like this until that moment. That was when we all realized that Lucy held them together. Without Lucy, there would be no Sting and Rogue. Of course, they were fine until she came along, but weren't we all? Now she's here and she's real and all we really know is that we can't lose her.
And there's no way we're losing her.
We're all thinking it. Lucy's hurt and were gonna be fighting each other for dibs on the guy that did the hurting.
Rogue won, by the way. Apparently, the rest of us didn't even qualify for the finals. It was always either Rogue or Sting that gets revenge for Lucy. The rest of us...
Well I guess we just don't count.
But, hey, I'm cool with it, so long as the guy dies. And if he doesn't, if Rogue dies instead, there's two whole fucking guilds ready to finish the job.
Either way, that bastard's going down.
Erza P.O.V.
She slept. And slept, and slept, and slept.
And I have no idea how to wake her up. My mind keeps flashing back to when we got to the house. Sting handed Lucy to me and I brought her upstairs, and I could hear the crashes of their fight downstairs.
And, apparently, so could Lucy.
Her eyes cracked open, and she mumbled something that even I couldn't make out. I cursed the ones downstairs for being so loud.
"Shit!" she groaned.
"Lucy?"
"Sorry. I'm sorry, don't... I'm sorry."
"Lucy? What are you talking about?" I asked her, getting more and more worried.
"Stay away. For now, stay away from the Dark Guild."
"What?!" I yelled, before looking around the room and lowering my voice. "After what they did to you, Lucy, you want us to stay away?"
"Yep." She said simply. She was struggling to stay awake, I could see it. She yawned. "They'll stay away for awhile, Erza, they got their point across. And they need time for all of their fighters to heal. We don't need to worry."
"Worry?" I asked, confused. "Lucy, what do you-"
"Where are they?"
The question interrupted my confusion. I looked down, but Lucy had fallen back to sleep. I looked to both sides of me, but didn't see anyone.
"Where are they?" The voice asked again. This time it sounded different. It sounded… deeper the first time. Both voices sounded young. I followed the voice, twisting behind me, but no one was there.
When I turned back around, I could feel my face twist in shock. Not a lot and not enough that someone who didn't know me could tell, but my eyes widened and my lips pressed together. Two children stood there, both about eight, with the same blonde hair, mossy green eyes, and pale skin. A boy and a girl.
"Where are they?" They asked, voices melding together in a way that disturbed me.
"Who are you?" I asked them.
"That's no fair!" The boy protested.
"We asked first!" The girl argued.
I glared at them, but they didn't waver. I took a deep breath and counted to ten. "Where is who?"
"Them!" They cheered together. "The rest of us! Where are they?"
Now I was confused. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
The girl giggled. "You're stupid. Lucy's the blonde one, but she's smarter than you!" She yelled, pulling on her eyelid and sticking her tongue out.
"Mini." The boy said to his twin. "That's enough." He turned to me. "I'm Gemi, and this is Mini. The spirits." He said with a grin and a tone that said duh, stupid.
"Wait, you mean Lucy's celestial spirits Gemi and Mini? Aren't you supposed to be little dolls or something?"
The boy laughed, and his twin giggled quietly. "Yep, back when Lucy was just getting the hang of this whole thing. But when Lucy gets stronger, her spirits get stronger, and the stronger the spirits are, the more likely it is that they take on a human appearance. Loke and Virgo appeared human to begin with, because they're naturally strong spirits, whereas slightly weaker spirits, such as Cancer, Sagittarius, and us need to rely on our owners powers to become stronger. It isn't that we don't have any power, either, before you say something like that, it's just that we need out owners' help to shape our powers. Loke, Virgo, and Aries had their powers shaped out for them by their previous masters." He ended the explanation by sticking his tongue out at me. Again, he used the tone in which the idiot at the end is implied. Still, I appreciated the explanation.
"So..." I said slowly, "why are you... out?"
"Lucy's hurt. We can come out on our own as long as her magical energy is at zero." they said together.
"It's at zero?"
"Yep!" The girl yelled. "She put up a good fight, but he still put her down. Lucy was really mad. She yelled out lottsa naughty words." she giggled.
Now I'm worried. This guy is that much better than Lucy? I was hoping he just got in a few lucky hits. I guess not. But, Lucy is pretty strong now. Maybe stronger than me.
How powerful is this guy?
Natsu P.O.V.
Erza came downstairs looking dazed, with two kids following after her. I looked at them for a few seconds, smelled Lucy's scent on them, and turned back to watching over Rei's shoulder as he cooked. He'd already made a meal for us, but since we all eat so much, there wasn't nearly enough. Maybe we should give him and extra ten percent out of the next mission reward.
Apparently, the others didn't smell Lucy on the twins, because Gray asked who they were.
"They are... Gemini." Erza said slowly, obviously still processing it herself.
"Who?" Gray asked.
"Lucy's celestial spirits Gemi and Mini." I murmured. Rei shivered, obviously not aware of how close I'd been to him. I smirked and backed up.
"Why do they not look like those little dog things?"
"Dog things?" Chalice asked him, swiveling in her seat. "In what world did those two look like dogs?"
"Well, what were they then?" Gray asked indignantly.
"Obviously they're... Well, they look like..." Chalice dropped her voice to a murmur as she ran through a list of animals. "Yeah... Let's stick with dogs."
Gray humphed unhappily, crossing his arms and turning away. The twins giggled happily at the show.
Sting stirred from his spot on one of the couches, where he'd been sleeping after the fight. Suddenly, his eyes flew open and he shot up, but it wasn't at the twins he was staring. It was the stairs begin them, his eyes widened in a rare shock. He grabbed a pillow from the couch and flung it towards Rogue, sleeping on the couch across from him.
The pillow hit him in the face, and he was instantly up and awake. His eyebrows drew together for a moment, before following Stings gaze to the stairs. He sighed. "She's gone, isn't she?"
Sting nodded, seeming to relax with his suspicions confirmed. Everyone else perked up.
"Gone?" Chalice asked.
"Lucy?" Gray said.
Rogue nodded. "Her scent isn't here anymore." he seemed to notice the tension and worry in the room. "Ah, she does this." he assured them. "Whenever she gets hurt and sleeps for awhile, she runs away once she wakes up. I think she just doesn't like being shut in. She probably isn't far."
Rogue's P.O.V.
His words seemed to put the others at ease, but after an hour of waiting, and about forty-five minutes of searching, he was beginning to get worried.
They'd split up to look for her half an hour ago, and nobody had any idea where she was. Refusing to lose hope, Rogue climbed up to the top of a cliff overlooking Magnolia. He hadn't been here long, and had only been to visit once or twice before, but he still knew his way around.
As he scanned over the city, his eyes came to rest on one small place in particular. "No..." he muttered. Surely she wasn't there. But... He might as well try.
Ten minutes later, he was slowing from his run and nearing the site. He smiled when he saw her, sitting on a swing, gently swaying back and forth, eyes closed. His breathing slowed back to normal as he walked over and sat in the swing next to her. The corners of her lips tilted up as she heard him move.
"You've been gone for awhile, ya know?" he asked her.
She nodded silently.
"Nearly two hours." He continued.
"Yep."
Screw being subtle. "Damn it, Lucy! You scared all hell out of me!"
"Isn't that a good thing?" She asked.
He sighed, falling forward until his head hit her shoulder. "Don't do that to me." He groaned.
Lucy laughed and tilted her head to rest on his. "Sorry." She said simply.
He pulled his head from her shoulder. "Shut up." He growled.
She smirked and leaned forward fast, nearly pouncing on him and causing him to flinch away slightly to keep her from hitting his forehead with hers. "Don't be angry." she murmured quietly, before bringing her head the rest of the way and meeting his lips with hers. His eyes widened for a second, before the edges crinkled and he kissed her back.
Pulling back and smiling, Lucy grabbed his hand and pulled him up with her as she stood. "We need to get back now."
He nodded. "Yeah, because you're still hurt and everybody else is still out looking for you, you troublesome girl."
She smiled at him, the first big, happy, all out genuine smile he had seen from her in awhile.
Suddenly, he knew it would all work out.