Disclaimer; fairy tail and all it's characters belong to Hiro Mashima
A/N; As I've been having trouble with new ideas lately, I've decided to edit my stories to make them even better, grammar and spelling wise. I may also elongate some chapters/edit some story lines where needed.
*Lucy's p.o.v *
I placed my hand over Hologiums key to check the time, as I rubbed the leftover sleep from my eyes. Right it has been two hours since our fight and I made the bad mistake of deviating from the plan. But still at least poor Gemini had been spared from any sort of harassment. She is one of my precious friends and I couldn't just have let them take her, not after the bad vibe those guys had given me. I swear they gave me the feeling that, they would have done deplorable things to Cassandra or Gemini before ransoming her back to her parents. I heard a groan resound from a rather beaten up, unconscious scumbag that lay a few feet away on the, extremely dirty floor!I'm serious have people never heard of cleaning up these days? But anyway it's impressive that the guy is still out cold, I mentally applauded myself. That's what you get for messing with a member of Fairy Tail, douchebag!
-flashback-
After we had arrived at...where ever the hell we are. The mage had noticed he'd grabbed me instead of his intended target, this had then thrown him into a panicked rage, I think that in his line of work failure isn't an option to cause that sort of reaction... that or he just has a really short nasty temper. I guess he assumed that because I hadn't used any magic earlier during the fight, I didn't use attack type magic or have much physical strength, leaving me defenseless...boy could I proved him wrong, and boy do I!
As he ran at me in blind rage, with his fist ready to knock me out in one hit, that was my final straw. I snapped simple as that. I had, had enough of men looking down on me be it normal men or other wizards in general(excluding my guild members and my few friends in Blue Pegasus) thinking I was weak, damn it I'm just as tough as the next mage...excluding S-class wizards. So I'd cracked my whip, lashing it out to keep him at bay until he was in a good enough position for me to wrap my whip round him, catching him off guard in the process, jerked him hard so he stumbled, lost momentum and balance, then lept up and sent a Lucy Kick straight into his weasley, annoying face! This did wonders for my self confidences issues as I had managed to turn his supposed knock out punch around and into one of my own! All without the help of one of my teammates.
MY only problem then had been, trying to get Loki not to come straight after me, in a reckless rescue attempt. I'd felt horrible for doing it but I'd given him an undeniable order as his master, not as his friend. I feel so guilty, that first chance I get, I promise to apologise profusely for this indiscretion! I hated treating any of my friends with a master, servant bond. Instead of a friendship based bond that we usually have. But my rent money was riding on this job and if Loki was there when they collected the reward, he could hold onto my share for me. Not that I distrusted Hibiki and Eve, but after Natsu tried to rob me of my fair share of reward money several times, a girl can never be too careful! (author: so that's why you said that? Lucy: what can I say a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!) Speaking of Hibiki I'm going to have to apologise to him too for going off plan, gahh today just wasn't my day! and after such a great trail date, last night to! I sighed loudly. Right no time for moping, time for plan 'get your ass outta here Lucy'. I knew I couldn't of been too far away from where the train had stopped, the teleportation mage wasn't strong enough for long range shifts, I'd say with the amount of magic he had, when he grabbed me, the farthest we could be was about two stops up the rail line so that would put me...hmm I'm not sure, I thought sleepily. I could figure that out after a nap, I sure am feeling exhausted, all of a sudden.
-End flashback-
Looking around to get my bearing, I scolded myself for falling asleep here, where anything could have happened to me or anyone could have found me. I felt the magic energy that had been drained out of me, due to keeping Gemini in our world and transformed for so long, almost fully restored. She must have gone home just before or after I fell asleep. I mused heading towards, what I assumed was the door to get out of this musty storage area. Akk I need a shower, the dust and grim in here is disgusting... Get your priorities in order woman, I thought shaking my head, trying to get myself back on track. First get outta this place then figure out where you are. Second find a way to meet back up with the guys, Third take money home and pay rent, Fourth invite Hibiki out for an apology dinner date and buy Loki some catnip!
I nod, to nobody but thin air, at having my plan of action in place...oops I'd totally forgotten about mister scum bag, over there. He needs to be taken to the police, scratch that I need to meet up with the guys and drop him off with the other bad guys, who they no doubt have in custody. Curse my sleepy brain making me so confounded. Right...a way to find out where the guys are and a way to meet up with them, I pondered as I stumbled around trying to find some rope to tie my unconscious scumbag up with, I found some hanging over a crate of boxes without too much trouble. I felt my hand brush over my key pouch that, was bounce wildly on my hip, after the effort of finding the rope, that would tie up my prisoner.
"Yata!" I cried out loud, as my brain finally figured out a course of action, and about time too! First things first though, tie up bad guy, seeing as I really don't need him to wake up on me right now!
~Loki where are you?~ I asked mentally with my hand over his key, after scumbag was safely secured.
~WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN YOU IDIOTIC PRINCESS~ Loki mentally replied, but with that volume I'm guessing he shouted out loud as well. I cringed at the level of noise and the tone he was using with me. Boy is my behind barbecued...that is the angriest I've ever heard him!
~umm well you see...I feel asleep after I beat my opponent into dreamLand~ I confessed timidly, not wanting to anger the spirit anymore than absolutely necessary. Boy was I wrong.
~YOU DID WHAT?~ He sputtered out his anger only raising, Crap! ~DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW OUT OF OUR MINDS WE'VE BEEN WITH WORRY OVER YOU?~
~Gomen gomen I really am sorry I'll buy your favourite catnip as a sorry gift if you'll forgive me~ I pleaded. There was silence for several minutes after that, I giggled, as I hauled the surprising heavy, for his slender build, mage out of the disease infested pit and out into the street looking around to see if I recognised anything to hint at where I was. My stubborn, loyal, playboy Lion spirit really was the picture of a perfect big brother, you could just hear the concern pouring out of his brain and into mine.
~Fine, but it better be the really expensive top brand stuff that I love, understand~ He finally replied, his tone leaving no room for argument on this matter.
~Aye sir!~ I happy impersonated. ~Now my loyal Lion if you're finished with your part of the job, sense where I am and get yours and Hibiki's asses over here on the double~ I demanded, the only response I got, were two low masculine chuckles before the line went dead, as I removed my hand from my key to focus on the dead weight I was carrying behind me.
After managing to maneuver myself and the lump, as I was now referring to the slowly starting to stir mage, I released that there had been two distinctly different male chuckles at the end of my conversation with Loki...Damn that Hibiki, his telepathy and his earwigging tendancies!
"Urrggg," the lump groaned. I rolled my eyes I really didn't need anymore hassle from this guy.
"Open gate of the golden bull: Taurus," I called out my extremely perverted spirit for a hand.
"What can I do for Lucy's hot body today?" Taurus mooed with hearts in his eyes. I ignored the lecherous cow's obvious sexual harassment and pointed over to the lump.
"Watch him okay Taurus and if he tries to make a run for it, knock him back out." I sighed sitting down on a nearby bench. I really hope Loki and Hibiki get here soon, I really want to go home and have a nice hot bath.
*Hibiki's p.o.v *
I laughed at the still fuming Lion as he lead the way towards where he sensed Lucy's magic to be. I'd patched myself into the mental conversation between spirit and master after he burst out in fury at his master on her only just getting around to contacting him, after a two hour silence. I was glad Lucy was safe and unharmed but I was also majorly annoyed with the girl for putting herself in that kind of situation in the first place, stubborn woman just couldn't follow the plan could she.
"If she thinks that anything other than the best catnip will make me forgive her, she has another thing coming!" Loki raged from up ahead, that was all he'd been able to talk about since Lucy had cut the link to him.
"Hey Loki?" I called up to him, watching as he registered my question, stopped his raging and turned to face me.
"What Hibiki?" He asked back grumpily.
"Why did she do it? Jumping in to save Gemini like that I mean," I clarified my question, so as not to cause any confusion. I watched the Lion think over the reasoning behind his masters actions, I pitied him in a way because he had such a temperamental summoner...then again he should pity me for falling for the woman that could be more troublesome. I mean he's constantly by her side if something goes wrong, while I won't know if she's hurt or worse until, well after the fact.
"Who knows what goes through that head of hers at times!" He started to reply, as he speed up, as we both continued walking toward our goal, Lucy. "Most likely reason I can think off, is the way that sleazy mage looked at her and Gemini/Cassandra, made her so mad that she decided 'no way in hell am I letting them take Gemini, I don't care if it's part of the plan or not'," Loki finished trying and failing to imitate Lucy's voice.
"That does sound like our Luce," I laughed starting to feel some of my annoyance at the overly caring, motherly girl start to slide, who could blame her for wanting to keep her spirits safe! As she always said her spirits are people too. "How much further?"
"Not far, we're within 5 minutes..." Loki never finished his sentence, as a loud explosion like noise followed by a pile of flying rubble, in the distance caught our attention. I looked at the Lions face and noticed it had gone pale, like he had seen a ghost or worse...Crap that must be where Lucy is!
"Loki go to her, NOW!" I shouted, grabbing the guys attention, he didn't need telling twice and he poofed away to rush to his master's side, as I took off running towards the site of the explosion. Why had I sent Eve back to report to the master? I could use his magic right now, I groaned to myself running as fast as my legs could carry me. Hold on Lucy, please be okay!