Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Notes: The last chapter was the end of the love triangle featuring Hellia, Lucy, and Minerva. In this chapter, let's just say that Hellia earned quite a reputation.
It had been two weeks since Hellia avenged Lucy's temporary death at the hands of Minerva, and both of the Sabertooth mages had been getting a lot of nice treatment from everyone else. When Lucy would be heading to her room, some girls would ask her for autographs and beauty tips to get their skin feeling more soft and smooth.
In fact, due to Lucy sharing Hellia's strength, many of the Sabertooth mages thought they should both be guild masters. Of course, they'd never express these thoughts with Minerva around. Knowing how karma worked its way back around for Hellia to kick her ass, Minerva would probably be more fixated on revenge.
Hellia had used her Dream Magic to restore the damaged guild to its original state, seeing as Sabertooth was the best guild in Fiore. Since Lucy had a pink guild mark on her left breast, Hellia decided to get the Sabertooth guild mark in purple on her right breast.
She wasn't trying to be different, but opposites do attract. However, the male mages did praise the doppelganger for her amazing strength and mastery of various forms of magic. Instead of accepting their offers for dates, since she loved Lucy, Hellia promised to help them strengthen their levels of power.
The river of popularity just kept on flowing for both girls, throughout each day. Whenever Lucy felt hungry, anyone (except Minerva) would give her the finest cuisine on his or her tray of food. She blushed at all the attention, but was somewhat nervous to see Minerva's teammates at another table.
At breakfast time, the following morning…
Lucy decided to let Hellia be in her human form as her doppelganger, since everyone had already seen her, and the girls sat down at a table with Sting, Lector, Orga, Rogue, Frosch, and Rufus. The guys were glad to see them, and Lector decided to start off the conversation.
"Even with that dark power, Hellia is not as strong as Sting-kun! I'd like to see the outcome of that fight, especially in the Grand Magic Games." Lector said with a smirk on his face while eating some fish.
"Well, Lucy and I share all of that power. If she gets stronger, I get stronger. The opposite is also true, too." Hellia replied with a smile on her face, as she hastily ate all of the bacon strips off of her plate.
"If you don't mind me keeping your answer in my memory, how did you two meet?" Rufus asked with a smile on his face while his eyes noticed the amazing resemblance between Lucy and Hellia.
"I was literally sitting on the edge of my chair when I saw that fight between Hellia and Minerva! That should've been on a Lacrima Vision camera, I'm serious." Orga added nicely, as he looked at Hellia eating the bacon strips off of Lucy's plate.
"We should go out on a job soon, Hellia. I need some more money to buy food, and please don't give me an added bonus, if you know what I mean." Lucy told her friend with a smile on her face while sipping from a cup of coffee after she put more sugar in it.
"Sometimes, it's good to make things easy on yourself." The black-haired girl responded while smirking deviously at Lucy.
"Frosch thinks so, too!" Frosch replied happily while shaking Hellia's and Lucy's hands.
Rogue was happy that Frosch was making a new friend, and he smiled at Lucy. However, something about Hellia seemed to make him curious. Her level of power wasn't exactly common, and when she would unleash new spells during practice in Sabertooth's training hall, Hellia somehow knew exactly how they worked.
Lucy got up from the table, and she walked over to the request board where the jobs were normally posted. Surprisingly, all six of the jobs were located in Magnolia Town. Apparently, a biker gang of bandits had invaded the town and the Fairy Tail mages were presumably too busy to handle the problem. Lucy was about to take the jobs, but then she thought about Team Natsu.
How would they react to seeing her again, after all this time? Lucy assumed that they would still blame her for the incident from the bank, but she didn't know what to do. Should she take the jobs, and risk getting thrown into prison? Thinking that she had a wanted poster with a bounty on her head, Lucy sighed sadly.
"Don't worry about a thing, Lucy! We'll help you out. After all, Sabertooth mages aren't just strong individually. As a team, we can obliterate anybody." Hellia said nicely while grabbing a flier for each of her friends.
"Hellia, don't creep up on me with Hell Speed!" Lucy exclaimed with a shocked facial expression, unaware that her friend was there.
Sting and the other guys also walked over to the girls, and Sting looked delighted at the job of capturing bandits. Not only would that make him look strong to anyone that he might have to protect, but he could also do what Natsu didn't accomplish. To him, it seemed to be a 2-for-1 situation.
"In total, it's 30,000,000 jewels! To keep things fair, we can split the money between the five of us. This way, each of us gets 6,000,000 jewels! Isn't that great?" Lucy explained with an ambitious red fire in her brown eyes, as she hugged the male team members and Hellia.
"What about Hellia? She might need some money, Lucy." Rogue replied kindly to her, as he looked emotionless.
"Oh, I'll be fine. Let's just say that ever since I joined Sabertooth, I've been saving up a lot of money." Hellia responded calmly while charging up a red aura on her left index finger. She had secretly been doing jobs without Lucy knowing, and Hellia had sold some of Minerva's things that were in her office to a pawnshop for very high prices.
Then, the group left Sabertooth and they were unaware that Minerva had been secretly watching them from behind a golden trash can.
In the forest…
Since the Magnet Train was still out of service, due to a major problem with the electricity that even Lightning Magic couldn't fix, the group decided to go through the forest. There were many kinds of fruit trees, and the sweet smell of honey was most likely coming from the beehives on the green-leafed cedars.
"Would you mind if I picked some bananas, so that we could eat something on the way to Magnolia?" Lucy asked with a smile on her face while looking at her teammates, as everyone's stomach's growled slightly.
"Stamina is a key factor in battles, Miss Lucy. You are very observant, too." Rufus replied while adjusting his hat and thinking of a way to quickly get all of the fruit.
Hellia simply let a yellow aura surrounded her right ring finger, and the yellow aura had the kanji for lightning appearing in it. She charged up some energy, and exhaled some air.
"Lightning Magic: Seizure Strike!" Hellia shouted fiercely, as she released a golden bolt of lightning from the tip of her ring finger. The golden lightning came down before anyone's eyes could blink, and all the fruit trees bearing bananas were instantly struck! The fruit came down, unharmed, and Hellia used her Dream Magic to make a wooden picnic basket appear on the ground.
"Are you really that hungry?" Sting asked while looking a little bit impatient.
"Us demon have to eat, too. Although, I can eat many foods and forms of energy." Hellia told him with a smirk on her face, as she used her Hell Speed to get all of the bananas and put them in the wooden basket. She ate one of them, and simply threw the banana peel on the ground. Afterwards, the group headed towards Magnolia Town.
Meanwhile, in the Fairy Tail guild…
Juvia had finally woken up in the infirmary, and she noticed that Gray had been sleeping by her bedside with his shirt off.
"Gray-sama really does care about Juvia!" she thought while blushing and smiling happily.
However, before she could wake up Gray, Natsu burst into the room and he looked angry.
"Get up, idiot!" He shouted angrily to Gray with some fire surrounding his left hand.
"Who are you calling idiot, flame brain?" The ice mage retorted, as he made an icy aura surround his right hand.
"I smelled Sabertooth on the wind!"
"Is it that Rufus bastard?"
"I don't know, but let's check it out!"
Natsu and Gray immediately ran for the guild's entrance, and Juvia looked depressed at the fact that she was so close to kissing Gray in his sleep. Then, she trembled while remembering the Lucy lookalike that she had seen in her long nightmare.
In Magnolia Town…
Hellia sensed something, as the group set foot into Magnolia Town, and she smirked menacingly. At that moment, her teammates wondered if something was wrong.
"Are the bandits really tough, Hellia?" Lucy wondered, as she seemed a little bit frightened.
"They weren't." Hellia replied in a casual tone, as a black sphere of Death Magic appeared in front of her. Six muscular men in biker gang outfits with cowboy hats and bandannas around their mouths were wielding chains, but they were all tied up and unconscious.
"When did you capture them?!" Sting asked, as he looked shocked at the sight of the bandits knocked out.
"Hell Speed comes in handy. I can do anything in a matter of nanoseconds, Sting. Now, I suggest you boys go back to the forest. Lucy and I just have some tasks to get rid of." Hellia explained while retaining the smirk on her face.
"I won't argue with her, guys. You know how it is when girls shop, right? Minerva takes so long, and makes us carry all of her boxes when she could just teleport them somewhere else." Orga explained with a calm facial expression while walking back with the others.
"Just don't take all day, or I'll help you out." Sting added in a cocky tone while walking away from the two girls.
"What is it, Hellia?" Lucy asked while looking concerned about her friend.
"Remember when we had to flee? Well, our opponents are coming for another taste of defeat!" Hellia replied, as she gently kissed Lucy's cheek.
"I won't lose this time!" Lucy proclaimed while confidently smiling and holding hands with her doppelganger.
Back in the forest…
Minerva had tried following the group, but Hellia's aura caused Minerva to think about even taking a step towards them. She didn't want to waste time teleporting to wherever her teammates might be, especially Fairy Tail, and she was hopelessly lost.
However, let's just say that she slipped on a sign. Minerva had slipped on the banana peel that Hellia left behind, and she was sent stumbling towards a cedar tree.
"Damn you, and that classic banana peel trick, Hellia!" Minerva shouted angrily while her head struck the tree. Her shouting wasn't exactly a bright idea, because the resonating sound waves caused some of the nearby beehives to fall. The bees emerged from their hives, and flew towards Minerva. She screamed loudly, and ran through the forest as fast as she could.