AN: Hey I'm back, finally! Sorry for the wait, I just couldn't find time to wrap up this chapter, but now I've got it! Informative, yet important, and it's from Deoxies perspective. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Fairy Tail which belongs to Hiro Mashima.


Chapter 10: The Girl Talk

-Fairy Tail Guild, October 25th, Deoxies's POV-

It has been a day since I returned back to the guild from my Cosmic-Space meeting, and about two days for the Norowareta gang. Apparently, they were completely exhausted when they came back and crashed at their houses without even stopping at the guild. Cody had sent Master a message after seeing the two at home to say that they were back safely. The guild was just as rowdy as ever when I arrived. Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, and Castor were all brawling over something idiotic while Juvia boldly cheered for "Gray-sama" out in the open causing him to blush oh so slightly. I giggled; because of that kiss, Gray was becoming more aware of his innermost feelings for the water mage. I was happy for the two of them. Erza, after Jellal had left, was still upset for a few days until yesterday she asked if I'd be willing to go on a mission with her, just the two of us, tomorrow. She wanted to catch up with me, and I had delightfully agreed. I've been dying to go on a mission with either her or Lucy or both. I wanted to truly reveal my magic and to spend more time with them.

For all of the seven years, I've never forgotten this guild, and how many times I smiled, laughed, cried, fought, and even became embarrassed. This is my family, and when I had suggested that we should come here when my group said that they had seen enough of the world, I had heard that the Tenroujima group had returned safely and had even won the Magic Games tournament. Today, I'm going to spend the day at Lucy's house to make up for my interference with her and Natsu's shopping trip as well as for being unable to go on the mission.

I glanced around the guild and spotted Lucy at the bar counter laughing with Levy over something to do with books. Mira was in front of her while Lisanna was on the other side joining in the conversation. Erza had, to my surprise, gone over to the table that Devilily was sitting at and they were chatting with one another. I figured that those two would get along; they have a lot in common. I noticed Cody going and talking with Gramps and Gildarts while Angelica and Wendy joined the other girls' conversation with a broad smile adorning her facial features. Happy and Charle were happily chatting together when Pantherlily joined them. I'm happy that my group is comfortable here. When I had made it over to where the majority of the girls were, Mira was the first to notice me.

"Hello Deoxies-chan, how are you today?" She asked causing all of the other girls to turn their attention to me. I felt my face temperature to rise a few degrees from all of the attention.

"I—I'm good, Mira, how about you?" A blush rose on her face as sparkles began shining in her eyes.

"You are just so darn cute, Deoxies-chan!" She cried out while squishing me into a hug. My face is officially a tomato by this point.

"M—Mira! I can barely breathe!" I gasped as she released me causing all of the girls to laugh.

"When you spoke you looked like your ten-year-old self again making me squeal in delight. Didn't she girls?" A blush rose to my face as the girls all agreed with her.

"I'm seventeen though!" I cried out and Angelica came over to give me a hug.

"You look seventeen to me, Deoxies!" I smiled while patting her head since I'm taller than her by a lot even though I'm just above average height for a female. Ange is that short.

"Well, obviously, we grew up together along with Cody, Castor, and Devi." She pouted cutely causing all of the girls, including myself, to squeal. She is definitely known as the petite innocent angel.

"Why do girls always squeal when I pout?" She innocently asked and Lisanna crouched down to her eye level.

"It's because you're so cute!" Ange's face turned bright red.

"I'm seventeen, too!" She stomped her foot, which just added to her cuteness. "Why doesn't anyone ever call Devi cute? She's the youngest!" Angelica whined causing everyone, except me, to stare at her skeptically.

"When was Devi's birthday?" Levy asked and I sighed.

"September. The next person in our group's birthday would be Te—" I slapped a hand over my mouth. Dang, I almost spoke his name, but his birthday is next. November eleventh, he never let me forget it, not that I was going to anyway. His grin flashed through my mind, causing a slight frown to appear on my face involuntarily. He'd be turning eighteen, and I'd be spending his birthday like I do every year, buy him a unwrapped gift that I'd probably never be able to give and toss it in the spare bedroom across from mine.

The girls' conversation continued around me with Mira gently explaining to Ange that Devi had a more mature air around her, which I agree with. She's always been mature for her age, but the price was probably her emotions, or something else. I glanced over to where Devi and Erza were still chatting with one another. Erza's brown eyes were gleaming while Devi bore a fake smile on her face. You could always tell when she was faking emotions since the real one was always present in her eyes. I could feel Lucy's concerned stare on me, but I managed to ignore it until Ange came up to me and looked at me with those big sapphire-azure blue eyes.

"I love this guild, their so loving and don't lavish me in false praise! Thanks for bringing us here Deoxies!" She exclaimed in a cheerful tone which made me smile, but when I looked to the others, they all had confusion written on their faces.

"Angelica, what do you mean by 'false praise'?" Ange's smile wavered slightly.

"When I was younger, before Devi met me, I was always lavished in false praise by everyone in my village since I am the blessed one. I didn't realize it then, but when Devi came into my life, she bluntly told me that they were all lying and asked if any of them ever really got to know me. When I reflected on it later, I came to the conclusion that she was correct, after we fought, of course, and she won. I ran away with her, she was the only person in my whole life until that point that had been truly honest. Thanks to her, I met Deoxies, Castor, Co-Co, and had the opportunity to meet all of you in this guild allowing me to be able to live my life happily with people who love me for who I am, not my title." All of the girls had tears in their eyes as they ran up and hugged the little angel. I smiled while wiping away the tears that had collected in my eyes. I'm glad that Angelica is finally truly content with a family who loves her wholeheartedly. I glanced over at Erza's and Devi's table and saw Erza with tears in her eyes while Devi had her one eyebrow raised in question. They must've heard Angelica's tale and Devi must be wondering why the hug. I shrugged at her and she went back to whatever she was doing.

Cody, seeing his girlfriend getting surrounded by a horde of females, strode over to us with concern evident in his bright green eyes. I thought it was sweet, he always puts Ange's needs first, and it's the same for Ange when it comes to Cody. They're such a perfect couple, and I'll kill anyone who tries to break them up. The girls, noticing the oncoming boyfriend, cleared a path for the time-space mage.

"An-An, is everything alright?" He asked in his polite and mature tone that was comforting. Ange nodded and ran up to him to give him a hug. We all "awed" at the sight.

"Yeah, I just told them how I met Devi." He crouched down to meet her eye level; this always amuses me, the tallest and the shortest within our group turned out to be a perfect match for one another.

"And I'm glad that you did or else I'd never have been able to meet the love of my life." Sparkles danced around their lovey-dovey atmosphere. Some of the jerk guys (cough, Elfman, Gajeel, Natsu, Castor, cough) made gagging sounds or disgusted faces while everyone else "awed," again. Ange gave Cody giant hug before she went back to the girls and Cody went back to his discussion with Gildarts and Gramps. I turned my attention to Lucy which she noticed and looked at me with her brown eyes.

"Are you ready to go?" I asked and she nodded with her famous smile. We waved goodbye to the guild as we strode out of the entrance. We started off our journey to Lucy's house in silence. When we made it to the edge of the canal, we both started walking on the edge, since I was in front of her, I turned around and started walking backwards making us laugh.

"You like walking on the edge, too?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah, life is too short to always be cautious, and the only risk in this is falling into the canal and getting wet. Not very life-threatening." We started laughing again before Lucy got a more serious look in her eyes.

"I'd never guess that Ange-chan would've had a past like that." My multicolored eyes softened along with the gentleness of Lucy's voice.

"Yeah, she and Cody's were similar, except Cody was overly-admired for his magic until Castor waltzed into his life. In a sense, Devi and Castor are saviors to them, which is kind of ironic considering their personalities." I let out a laugh at the thought causing Lucy to giggle. We had finally reached her house and she unlocked the entrance before we stepped through the threshold. Lucy quickly prepared a cup of tea for both of us and brought out some snacks. It took a minute before conversation started up between us again.

"On the mission, I learned a lot about Castor and Devi, but the majority of it I don't understand." I raised an eyebrow in question; it was unusual for those two to be willing to give information about themselves.

"Oh? And what might you not understand? I'll see if I can clarify it without getting killed by the devil." Lucy smiled at this comment causing me to also grin. It's true though, if I exposed too many of Devi's secrets unnecessarily then I'm screwed. Lucy, sensing this, chose her words carefully.

"One example would be that Devi and Castor consider themselves to be good friends, which was apparently a shock for Castor."

"I can see why it would be, when the devil says that she trust you enough to put you under her friend category, that's huge. She's getting better at trusting people, but don't be discouraged if it takes her a while to completely open up. Heck, I've never even seen her true smile before, and it's been seven years! Neither has Ange, and she's known Devi for nine!" Lucy blinked blankly in surprise at this fact which made me slap my hand over my mouth. I said too much, please don't let Devi know about this, universe!

"That's…weird, because when I eavesdropped on her and Castor's conversation one time I swear I saw her true smile come out, but it only lasted a few seconds." I bit my lip; we are treading on ice as thin as hair.

"Were you able to see her eyes?" Lucy shook her head which made me internally relieved. "Then it probably was a fake smile, she's incredibly good at faking her emotions, but the one place where you can always see her true emotions, if you know her well enough, is in her eyes. If the smile doesn't reach her eyes, then it's fake no matter how real it looks." Lucy nodded and I internally congratulated myself. I hate not being able to tell the whole truth to Lucy, but this isn't something I should explain without prior clearance from Devi. She has to be willing to share her burden, not me handing out to others.

"Devi's magic...what type is she? Like a holder—"

"To make it simple, it's similar to Erza's re-quip magic that allows her to change her armor causing various stats to be raised. For Devi, it's a 'transformation,' her magic alters with her new form and she regains her magic. The reason for this is because she's summoning her magic from hell which comes in various forms depending upon what portion of hell that the magic was from. However, any and all injuries sustained in each of the forms will appear on her normal personnel, so she has to be careful." Lucy's eyes were darting back and forth in thought before they widened in realization.

"Is that why nobody can get a gauge on her magic? Because not all of her magic is there which means that only someone who's fought her with magic is enabled to have a better grasp on how much magic she contains. That's why she's the most underestimated person, isn't it?" I forgot how intelligent Lucy is, she nailed it.

"Yeah, basically, plus her being emotionless doesn't exactly help." She started laughing and I cracked a smile. This was fun, and this is what I didn't get to do with any of the other girls on my team since Devi is only found training, studying, or cooking, while Ange usually doesn't catch intelligent things, so it sometimes it feels like I'm talking to a wall. I can carry on intelligent conversations with Cody, but he prefers spending time with Ange and he isn't a girl. Castor…definitely not, not only is he not of the female gender, but he'd rather be training than talking about something smart. Granit, I love them all to death, they are my family when I didn't have Fairy Tail, and they still are, but sometimes I just wish I could have a decent conversation for once that didn't end in Devi and Castor bickering, Ange crying into Cody, and me sighing in exasperation; that'd take a miracle, I'd rather save my miracles for something more worthwhile.

"I know that I've asked you this before, but I overheard a conversation between Castor and Devilily about Castor's nightmares, and I was wondering what exactly is going on. I mean, both he and Devilily have nightmares on a somewhat regular basis?" Lucy questioned in a thought out manner. These topics are very fragile between giving too much away and downright avoidance. I needed to word my answer carefully.

"Because Devi is the Cursed One, she is forced to have some sort of nightmare every time she falls asleep. Castor's nightmares are more complicated and happen less frequently in a somewhat predictable pattern. I can't give you details about what their nightmares entitle, since they put up blocks to prevent me from knowing, so you'll have to ask them about their dreams." Lucy looked as if she wasn't satisfied with this answer, but it was all that I could give that was true and not overstepping any boundaries. It was true that I don't know exactly what every single one of their horrid dreams are about, but I could predict some of them.

"Castor's magic is a bit strange, too."

"Well, he is the Worldly One. His magic domain is anything that has to do with the physical world and living magic. He has resistance to worldly magic, which was why Natsu's flames didn't do much damage, but the 'dragon' part of them affected him a bit. It was like a hard punch with an extra kick. Elements, weather, all of that's under his magical domain, but he can also control plant life, a bit, and can talk to animals if need be. It's actually quite amusing when he does communicate with wildlife." The two of us started laughing at the image of Castor talking to animals and Lucy made the comment that the entire idea was hilarious, which I agree with wholeheartedly.

"That doesn't really fit Castor's image, and speaking of which, his personality is so…complicated." Lucy noted and my eyes down casted. That question was about the very depths of Castor's being.

"Castor, he is actually quite the loyal, friendly, and amusing person, once you get to know him; but he has a rough outer crust that is meant to fend off enemies." Lucy nodded solemnly in comprehension and I could tell that she was thinking about Erza who wore the armor of scariness in order to protect the nice, friendly, yet slightly fragile girl beneath. Everyone had their own way of creating barriers around themselves for protection. Castor's was his gruffness, Devi her emotionlessness, and Erza her armor. It makes being their close friends who got to see their inner selves even more enjoyable.

"I think that's it for now about the two of them. Do you have any questions for me?" Lucy asked which jerked me from my train of thoughts about invisible armor.

"Yeah, I know that I asked this once when I was ten, but I'm going to ask again: do you like Natsu in a more special way?"


AN: Dun, dun, duuun! Another cliffhanger just because. They're fun writing, but please don't kill me because of it! I can't write more then! Anyways, I hoped you enjoyed reading this and look forward to the next chapter! ;)