(A/N: Gomen mina my nii-san wouldn't let me use the laptop, but here is the next chapter. Please forgive me, I hope you enjoy)
Lucy's POV:
I let out another deep breath, raising my left hand to wipe away at the sweat that had coated my brow. It's been a month since I last saw Levy, but today we get to take a break, Ki-chan and Chi-chan said we were learning really fast so they decided that we get to get a break, but after today is training all over again. I was walking back to the little town that we stay in, since we have been camping out in the forest near our training areas we don't usually come to our home, so I felt nice coming back and looking at all the buildings I walked by heading to the house we stay at. Once I saw the house I jogged a bit and open the door.
"Levy-chan?" I shouted out into what seemed to be a deserted house, but then all of a sudden I saw a blue blur and found myself tackled to the floor. I open my eyes only to the blue hair of my best friend.
"Levy, I missed you" I said hugging her still on the ground.
"I missed you too Lu-chan" Levy said looking up at me. Once she said that she started getting up, extending a hand to help me. She changed a bit her hair is past her shoulders, she doesn't wear her normal orange dress, instead she wore ripped skinny jeans, and a small orange tee-shirt. But she wasn't the only one who had changed, my hair also has gotten longer it's almost at my mid back, but I had tied it up so the outer layers were pulled up into a bun and the lower layers cascaded down my shoulder. My outfit was different too, unlike Levy who had changed to be more relaxed in her style, now mine was more extravagant. I wore a long white dress, one that had lots of thin layers that flowed down my body and trailed out behind me. I wore silver high heels that clicked as I walked, and I realized with humor that now Levy-chan and I seemed to look like opposites. I realised by Levy's wide eyes that she must have taken in my appearance, the style made to look angelic, but the practicality of I wasn't as bad as it seemed, it was all about gaining ultimate determination that I could wear something that used to be totally impractical and now I could fight to the death in it.
"Lu-chan, you look so different..." Levy-chan murmured, and I beamed to my best friend.
"So do you Levy-chan," I chuckled, and she giggled
so how has your training been?" Levy asked
"It's getting harder each and every day, what about yours?" I answered.
"The same but if it means in getting stronger I will withstand any training" Levy stated, and I saw how much she had changed, the determination I had been practicing so hard seemed to be shining out of her, I only nodded agreeing with her.
"Lu-chan lets go into town, I want to go get new books and we could go to the café I really liked their food, even though we took it from Sabertooth's dragon slayers" she said looking at me with hopeful eyes, and I subsided.
"Sure Levy lets go" I agreed. She again pulled me into another hug, and I giggled when I saw that unlike before I was a little bit taller than her, due to the high heels on my feet, and she rolled her eyes, revealing again how different she was. But she grabbed my hand, and pulled me out of the house, both of us laughing gleefully.
We walked for ten minutes before we arrived at the edge of the forest. We walked around for a couple of minutes before we came upon a bookstore; Levy went and searched for some books while I stayed outside the shop. I was looking around taking in all of my surroundings; the first time we came I didn't get a chance since we were running errands and then we saw four annoying dragon slayers; and two of them just had to be our former nakama who decided to ruin our day, but oh well it doesn't matter no more.
"Oi Blondie, I never thought I see you again" I heard and turn my head to see none other than the white dragon slayer, Sting Eucliffe.
Sting's POV:
I was walking around looking for my partner Rouge. I don't know where he disappeared to but I needed to find him so we can finish this finish fast. As I was walking I notice a familiar head of blond hair standing outside a shop when I got closer I notice it was Blondie.
"Oi Blondie, I never thought I see you again" I said, and the words caught in my throat as she turned around. She wasn't the rebellious girl I had seen at the café before, now she was powerful, I could feel her magic radiating off her and she wasn't even controlling it, she must have been training hard. But she looked beautiful, her appearance so very different to that of before, now she looked mature, angelic, and I felt a light blush coat my cheeks merely at the sight of her.
"Don't call me Blondie, because last time I checked you were blond too, bee," she retorted looking me straight in the eye as she rose an eyebrow at me, as if initiating a challenge; I felt myself getting a tick mark, forget what I said earlier, she wasn't beautiful, she was annoying.
"How dare you call the great Sting Eucliffe a dam bee, Blondie!" I snapped, she just looked at me with a glare.
"If you don't stop calling me Blondie I won't stop calling you Bee" she shrugged, we had a stared down for what seem like hours until it got interrupted by her blue hair friend.
"Lu-chan lets go I don't want to be near these Dragon slayers" I turned and looked at her and noticed my partner right behind her with a tick mark on his forehead.
"Alright let's go, I'm hungry," Blondie said with another shrug, and they started walking away.
"Hey Blondie let us join you!" I shouted, giving her one of my famous smirks that girl's fall for all the time.
"What about no, Stingy?" she retorted, giving me a glare. I felt my jaw almost drop to the floor, no girl has ever rejected me; I just stared at her while she just gave me an amused look. I composed myself after seeing them walking away; I looked over at my partner.
"Hey Rouge what did you do to Blondie's friend to get her mad?" I asked. Trying to hide my embarrassment, and turning my curiosity to my partner, interest in what made the calm and stoic Rouge get mad.
"I only told her that her book preferences were stupid and she decided it will be funny using a big and heavy book that was near her and dropped it on my foot, and I must admit that did hurt" Rouge said. I couldn't help but laugh, I was laughing so much that I ended up rolling on the floor. When I was done I looked up wiping tears from the ends of my eyes and seeing Rouge giving me a deathly glare.
"That Blondie and her friend are really interesting" I stated.
"You would know after all the flirting you did with her," Rogue answered, and I felt a blush rise to my cheeks as I protested, but my partner shook his head slowly, as if he didn't believe me. Not one bit.
