Nakama
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Lisanna is back, Team Natsu fall out with Lisanna, Lucy protects Lisanna as a friend but is still in Team Natsu. "If this is to work no-one must know you are a Fairy Tail Mage, I must remove your stamp"
Chapter 10 ~ Palms
Lucy's P.O.V
"Lucy what do you think of these?" Lisanna asked me pointing at a box of wine glasses, I smiled before cringing "they would be good, but I'm worried about them breaking." Lisanna smiled at me "but it's a special occasion right? I mean it's your teams anniversary for forming soon." I hung my head to the side 'that's what I'm worried about' I thought to myself as images of Natsu and Gray fighting, Erza losing her cake and all the complete destruction that follows that would most likely happen on the day. "yeah, but my team are not exactly normal" Lisanna furrowed her brows at me "no one in Fairy Tail is normal Lucy, even we can't be considered normal anymore, especially since we can cope with all the chaos and get somewhat involved with it all" Lisanna had a good point, with all the hell since joining fairy tail, it was like her sense of reason had become high on alert then practically tossed aside, which is pretty much what had happened, logic and fairy tail do not live in harmony.
"All right then Lisanna, where going to make this party one to remember" I replied enthusiastically, pumping my fist into the air, Lisanna followed suit with "AYE SIR" which made us both start laughing, we got some funny looks from other shoppers, but we didn't care, we were having a blast together, and the shop was still intact when we left with a total of 6 bags of shopping each.
"Hey, Luce?" Lisanna said stopping in mid stride as we headed back to the hotel, we had been staying at for our so-called "mission" or so we had Mirajane cover for us. "yeah?" I said stopping to look behind me at Lisanna.
"Where are we, going to hide these?" Lisanna asked with a dead serious expression, her question causing me to sweat drop.
"oh that" I said as we began walking again by each other's side "well I was just going to hide them at my house in cupboards and under the bed and things" Lisanna looked quizzically at me " but Natsu, Erza and Gray are always at your house aren't they?"
"Yeah but, lately they don't seem to come over, I guess they're busy" I shrugged my shoulders to emphasize my point that I don't know what they're up to lately.
"Sorry" Lisanna said quietly as she put her head down, I was about to ask her why she apologized but she must have thought that she had avoided my hearing because she looked up and gave me a big grin, "I know!" Lisanna said as she ran in front of me, turned around and placed her hands and bags behind her back, she leaned forward a little and for a minute I thought her eyes were shining "how about we keep them at mine?, just in case your team decide to come over"
"Are you sure?" I was grateful, Lisanna had done soo much for me already, going on missions with me so things didn't get broken and end up losing the reward money, even coming with me to get some rent money as I hadn't been on missions with team Natsu recently and they seemed quite distracted lately, I was worried about them, but Lisanna had told me not to worry, that whatever it was, they would get over it eventually. Another reason for holding this event, I decided that this was to cheer them up as well.
"Mmm" Lisanna nodded, she placed all her bags in one hand like I had, and grabbed a firm hold of my free hand before dragging me into a running motion to the hotel. I told her to wait a second to get my bearing, but she just smiled and told me to hurry up while still keeping us running to the hotel.
For who knows how many times that day, I smiled, I couldn't imagine all this preparation being as fun as this on my own.
I just didn't expect it to be placed on hold for a long time.
Sitting up in my bed, I decided to get up to go catch myself and Reever something for breakfast, normally this would be Reever's job, but since I was awake I figured I might as well put my tracking skills to use. I scribbled a note onto a piece of scrap parchment and slipped it under his room door.
Normal P.O.V
It took some time for Lucy to find a Kill in the forest and even longer to find her way back to camp, Taurus carrying the dead dear and Sagittarius carrying her on his back.
Reever had set up the camp fire ready for what she would bring back, knowing she wouldn't come back unless she caught something, that was a matter of her pride; so he took clear note of her large embarrassed blush when Sagittarius placed her down on one of the tree stumps near the fire, that served as seats and the concerned glances her spirits were giving her to which she shook her head at in a silent command.
"So how'd it go?" he said looking at the dear, her two spirits, and then at Lucy, who seemed to be cursing under her breath as she shuffled on her seat.
"It didn't" Lucy said in an undertone as Taurus laid the deer down and followed Sagittarius back to the spirit realm. Reever raised his eyebrow at her.
"Care to Elaborate?" he queried as went to the deer to begin preparing it for roasting.
"I summoned the bow and arrow fine, I aimed fine, but some animal rammed into me, making me miss the shot, I then had to run after the alarmed deer, ran into a tree, fell into a thorn bush and sprained my ankle; I almost lost the deer, so I summoned Sagittarius who helped me follow it and took it out for me, but he couldn't exactly carry both of us so I summoned Taurus and asked him to carry the deer, we then all got lost and had a bit of trouble finding our way back."
Reever nodded, but Lucy could tell he was slightly annoyed, if anything Reever hated failure, she had learnt this during her arguments with Aquarius, where he would yell at us, he'd threaten Aquarius with not allowing me to summon her boyfriend for training Lucy to merge spirits together. He then lectured Lucy that spirits are like children, needing to be scolded as well as praised, and that as a celestial mage, acting like a child isn't being a good role model for her spirits. Okay so maybe hate was too strong a word, it's not like he kept any of his threats, perhaps it was just concern for her, for what would happen if she made a mistake on her mission, the result might not be a few scratches and a twisted ankle; it could be much more fatal.
"You may want to clean up yourself up a bit after breakfast Lucy" Lucy was caught off guard, she was sure he'd question her about the original mistake, the animal that sent her flying, or lecture her about hunting, or simply give her a job to do despite her ankle at least.
"Eh, why?" Lucy asked dumbstruck, Reever didn't look at her but instead tied the dead animal to a long wooden pole ready for cooking. "Someone's entered the barrier."
"WHAT, I THOUGHT NO-ONE COULD GET IN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION, you only let me in because of the charms" Lucy muttered the last part to herself, she then looked back up at him, to see he was giving her another weird look. "What?" she said innocently.
"Nothing, Actually go get a bath and have one of your spirits help you with those cuts now rather than later you smell too much like the countryside."
"Hmph and you don't?" Lucy retorted as she stood up and limped back to the house
"Touché" he spoke under his breath as she closed the door, he then went back to what he was doing, using the poker on the fire and slowly turning the deer on a stick so that it cooks properly.
"I'm really sorry, I can't believe I let them get away" Lisanna bowed apologetically to Makarov.
"No Lisanna, if anything it's our faults, we should have come to tell Master when they started" Lisanna said patting her sisters back
"For the six hundredth time, you lot, it's no-one's fault But mine" replied a half drunken Makarov who slammed his beer onto the table, the table broke but remarkably the beer glass didn't have a crack, Mirajane looked worriedly at master and the drink, she knew he wasn't in the right state of mind for good judgement and was now hoping he wouldn't hit her or Lisanna with the drink, she most certainly didn't want to end up like that table, not to mention the glass survived.
Gajeel was eyeing Lisanna, who was taking sneak peeks every now and then at the man, she heard from Mira how he was the first person to be victim, and through Levy of all people, at first she had apparently been hitting on Gajeel out of the blue, which had caused Mira to go on a squealing spree, and how he was failing to stop from blushing, and before he knew anything he was backed up just as Erza and Levy teamed up and buried him into the wall, quickly followed by a flying Reedus from Gray and then the all-out confusion of the fight, before the realization of what was happening.
"Master!" Lisanna suddenly screeched out causing heads to turn in their direction once again, "allow me permission to bring back team Natsu."
"What!" Mira yelled at her sister tightening her grip on her shoulders
"Of course I won't go alone, I'll need help with bringing them back and finding them in the first place"
Mira relaxed slightly but was still tense, Wendy and Natsu were part of the group gone "I wish to take Gajeel with me" Mira would have collapsed there and then if it wasn't for Gajeel suddenly shouting refusals, unfortunately for him, his refusal fell on deaf ears as Makarov sent them both out immediately.
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To be continued...
Nakama Chapter of Palms Part 2 will be uploaded when i get back from my trip, i'm going to my home town for a week, sorry this took so long to upload, i haven't been well again, was in and outta friggin hospital like a yo-yo and the internets a boza again, no matter what were with Bt, sky whatever the internet just gets so friggin slow; its stupid, and the stress from it's slowness aint helping ^_^''
