Chapter 14, here you go! Hope you like it!
And like always Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail, I only love it like madman.
I slammed the guild's door open lightning dancing around me. Some people turned to look toward me confused, but as soon as they noticed that it was me they lost their interest and turned back to do their things. Mostly meaning dodging flying objects like tables, mugs, Elfman etc. The idiot guild was having their everyday fight leaving only few chosen ones out of it. And what a surprise it was to see the flame-brain and the stripper in the middle of it.
'What kind of a master can't even keep his guild'd members under control?!' I can say that seeing those weaklings tussling with each other didn't help deflate my fury. It was the opposite. My anger only grew toward my oh-so-amazing grandfather. It made me want to spit to the ground when I thought that he had chosen to send the ash-for-brains and the popsicle to such an important mission, and what more Lucy with them.
I gave the last disgusted glare to the fighting pile of mages before turning to look for Gramps. But at the same second I let my eyes leave the battle, something or more specifically someone was send flying toward me. Without giving it any thought who it might be, I spun around leaving my right leg slightly behind to get ready to kick. And when the time was right, I let my leg swung forward and land neat kick to... 'Well look at that.' A smug grin formed on my lips as I saw who was the lucky one to taste a fraction of my power this time. It was the imbecile flame-brain Natsu. Or it had been, because my kick had send him flying back to the battle knocking some people with him. I must say it helped to settle my anger for little, but as soon as the fun was over my fury was back.
I turned around and went to the bar where Mira was working like usually. I was sure that if someone knew where Gramps was, it was her. It was clear by now that Gramps wasn't in the main hall, because if he had been I would have smelled him already.
I slammed both of my hands to the bar desk making the white-haired woman give an annoyed look. "Where is Gramps?" I asked firmly my anger growing from just thinking that idiot old man. Mira put the mug down she had picked up probably thinking that I had came to get my regular beer.
"Master? He's in his office... Why do you ask?" I ignored Mira's question and headed toward the stairs that lead to the second floor where the master's office was located. Step by step, stair by stair I felt my anger growing and the lightning around me getting stronger. When I finally reached the office's door and Gramps smell hit me, the fury inside me.. I wasn't able to come up with any word to describe it in that state of mind.
I kicked the door open, with more force than I had used on Natsu. Behind the door there was an irritated looking old man and huge amount of flying papers waiting for me. "Nice to see you to Laxus..." Gramps glared me not even trying to cover his thoughts of my sudden visit.
Gramps hopped down from his chair and started to pick up the paper mumbling something about reckless youth and paperwork at the same time. 'Reckless youth my ass! If you would even pretend to try to keep this guild under control, then maybe we wouldn't be the laughingstock in every freaking town in Fiore!'
When Gramps reached out to pick up a paper before me, I stepped on it not letting the old man get it. The teeny man shot an angry glare toward me. "What is wrong with you right now?! First you storm in and mess up the whole place and now you don't even let me clean up the mess. Just what are you thinking?"
"What am I thinking?! You want to know what I'm thinking?! Well I will tell you what I am thinking! I'm thinking that how fucking big moron my own grandpa can be and how he should finally retire from his position as a guild master and give that title to me!" I stared down to the tiny old man before me who had finally given up on picking up the paper that was still placed tightly under my shoe.
"You don't know how much I would want to do it, but..." Gramps sighed while rubbing the back of his head. "As long as you aren't able to treat your fellow guild members as your equal, I can't trust you to be able to make wise decisions as a master." As the old man finished his sentence he gave me a hard look.
"And you can?! In which universe it is wise to send the guild's most destructive and irresponsible team to such a dangerous and important mission?! And don't you fucking give me that I-don't-now-understand look, you know very well what mission, and team, I mean! What the hell was going inside of your head?! TELL ME! Did you just pick the first team that volunteered, because if there is a fight there is Natsu! I can only imagine how exited that flame-brain will be to fight against mages that belongs to one of the greatest dark guilds there is! Erza yes, Grey yes and even maybe Natsu yes, but what the fuck where you thinking when you decided that you will send Lucy there too?! Did it ever cross your mind that in that team there might be someone that doesn't thirst for danger?! She could get killed! So what the hell where you thinking?! FUCKING ANSWER ALREADY!" I punched my fist to the wall making it crack a little.
The old man opened and closed his mouth like a freaking fish, but no word came out. The silence that had fallen into the room allowed me to hear how the lower floor had stopped their fight and where now listening us. I slammed the door close, not wanting anyone to over hear us more. The loud pang the door let seemed to wake Gramps from his trance, because he was finally able to get some words out of himself.
"Laxus you..." The old man started seriously. And can you believe it, I actually thought for a moment that he finally started to take my words severely. But no, no fucking way was he going to do that! What he did next just proved that Gramps really didn't have any brain cells in his head. He brought his hand before his face and lifted his little finger. "So... Am I going to see some great-grandchildren soon?" The old man asked with the most perverted face he owns.
My face was getting slightly red, but I hell wasn't blushing. Let's just say that it was my wrath's embodiment, just like my lightning. I squeezed my hands to tight fists, so tight that my nails had started to dig into my flesh. My whole body was shaking from anger.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING INSIDE OF YOUR HEAD?! I'm trying to talk seriously with you and you just fool around! You are probably sending some of your guild's members to their death and what you do? You make a fucking disgusting joke! No wonder you where even able to expel your own son so easily!" I knew that in reality it had been hard for Gramps to expel dad, but right now my anger had the control over my body. And that this something Gramps can only blame himself!
"LAXUS!" The old man shouted madly. It had always been hard place for him to talk about my dad, his son. I could feel how the magical pressure was growing in the small room. I had clearly stepped over the line and Gramps was going to show me where my place was. 'Sorry Gramps, but this time I won't eat humble pie!' The pressure wanted me to take step back, but I had something else in mind. I kept my place and let Gramps know that he wasn't the only one in this guild with enormous magic.
The papers that the old man had just picked up were again flying around the room from the magical pressure as we tried to over come each other's powers. We where just standing there and staring each other eye to eye, neither wanting to be the first to back off, because it would have meant defeat 'I'm not going to lose this time Gramps!'
Who knows how long we would have been kept up with this non-verbal battle, if Lucy hadn't rushed in to the room right in the middle of it. Seems like she had guessed what I was going to do and had followed me here.
"Laxus!" the blond girl shouted as she stepped in. We both, me and Gramps, turned to look at her slightly shocked. We really hadn't been expecting intruders. It took only second from Gramps to withdraw himself back to be the goofy master he is and as he did all the magical pressure disappeared from the room. Right then I noticed I had already lost the battle. I had lost right then when Lucy had appeared and my concentration had wavered just for a teeny teeny moment. Gramps had kept his never letting it waver... 'Dammit! Why is at that I always lose?!' I tightened my fists and looked slightly down defeated.
"Lucy, my child, how can I help you?" Gramps asked with his stupid gentle smile on his lips.
"I came to make sure that this big idiot wouldn't cause any trouble..." Lucy took a fast glimpse over the room "But it seems, I'm a bit too late." She sighed. I could feel her eyes staring at me, so I purposely looked to the other direction not wanting to face the blond girl's annoyed eyes right now. The shame for losing was enough right now.
"How could this be your fault? It was just a normal grandparent-grandchild-fight we had here, so no worry." Gramps waved his hand before his face still that stupid smile on.
"Well if that's the truth, then good." Lucy said doubt in her voice. "Mind if I borrow him for a while though?"
I wasn't sure anymore where to look in the room, because I didn't want to look at Lucy, but now there was my idiot grandfather giving me idiotic grins in the other directions for a certain reason. And that was something I ABSOLUTELY didn't want to see.
"Sure, you can take him. We where actually finished already, so you don't have to worry about returning him. Just take the time you need with him and while you are at it make sure to make some great-grandchildren for me." Gramps chirruped that ugly pervert face on while he pushed me and Lucy out of his office.
"Master!" Lucy screamed her face redder that I have ever seen. But god! Nobody can blame her for that. Even I had hard time keeping myself from blushing. 'Just what the hell is that Gramps thinking?!' I could only use my imagination to think what kind of images were running trough Lucy's head right then, because mine were something that would be inappropriate to show to children under 18. But knowing Lucy and her innocent mind, her thoughts were probably more like holding hands when compered to mine.
Lucy had turned toward the stairs and was just about to leave her face still red as tomato when Gramps called out for her. "Lucy. Taking out Oracion Seis will be hard and dangerous and if you want, I can withdraw you from the mission. So what do you want to do?." Lucy blinked her eyes few times before shaking her head.
"No, it's not necessary. It's true that the mission will be dangerous and the risks will be high and I may be the only one scared... But it's the greatest honor to represent Fairy Tail in such an important mission, so I will only withdraw from the mission if it's your command." Lucy answered smile on her face before continuing her way to the stairs. I was about to follow her, but Gramps continued his speaking with quiet voice so only I could hear him.
"And that is the second reason you aren't ready to be a master yet. You have to have fate in your comrades. They are all proud members of Fairy Tail and you should trust in their abilities. I'm not sending her there just for fun. She is a part of their team and team can't be whole and on it's best if one of their members is missing. This is a good chance for them to grow a bit closer to adulthood together."The voice he used was the voice of wise and loving father who shared his wisdoms (that are hidden somewhere deep under the pervert mind) with his child that has lost his way. I didn't like it, but I didn't practically hate it either. This was the Gramps I had admired and respected as a kid. It was the great Makarov Dreyar, the 3rd master of Fairy Tail and my grandfather talking to me right now.
Gramps had walked next to me and was staring down to the lower floor where every member of Fairy Tail was laughing and doing their usual stuff, Natsu and Happy eating, Erza enjoying her cake, Grey trying to politely refuse the new girl's, Juvia's cooking, Levy reading her book while Jet and Droy fighting over her attention, the metal dude, Gajeel eating...metal, Elfman shouting man to everything, Mira serving drinks and food, Reedus painting, Macao, Wakaba and Cana drinking, Max chatting with Warren, Nab "trying" to pick up a job, Vijeeter dancing, my team fixing up the parade vehicles and like that the list goes on. And you thought that I wouldn't even bother to remember their names. Well you were wrong. I may hate the guild as it is right now and the weaklings, but they still are members of the same guild as I am, the guild I want some day to be recognize as the best guild in Fiore, no, as the best guild in the continent. I actually know quite a bit about everyone. Their hobbies, favorite food, addresses, I even know their god damn taste of music and what mostly, I know all their weak and strong points. Yes you heard right. They have some strong points too. However the reason why I will never probably see them as my equal, is that they are still all weaklings. And when I call them weaklings I don't necessarily mean their lack of physical strength, though they are all weaker than me, but more like their lack of thinking. They never plan out their attacks, they always rush to the battle head first and they don't even see that as their weak point. That is why they are all weaklings, physically powerful or not.
"But will it really be the best place for them to start the growing?" I asked with calm voice never turning to look at Gramps as my eyes where glued to the blond girl who had just reached her team's table.
I turned to head downstairs too, when Gramps voice stopped me. "Honestly, I can't say. Still now that I look at you, Lucy or anybody else I know that even the hardest way will make you grow to be gentle and caring people. Yes, even you Laxus. You just have to find the right path to fallow... and maybe some other ways to show you feelings." Gramps chuckled slightly while looking at his office. I gave him a low groan as an answer and made my way to the lower floor. And just I reached it I heard Gramps last words. "You will be a good master someday, but right now you just have to consentrate on growing and making your own path. ... ... And maybe some great-grandchildren for me!" 'God dammit Gramps! Every time you start getting my respect back, you just have to wash it down to the toilet again.' I rolled my eyes and couldn't keep the small smile forming on my lips. Even if I hate that old man and living in his shadow, it has it own moment being his grandchild.
"Let's go Blondie." I turned to the girl who was talking with her team mates. Lucy saluted them quickly and jogged for few steps to catch up with me as I had almost reached the guild's doors already. There was quite many eye pairs staring at us wide open as we stepped out of the building. Me interacting with someone else than with Thunder God Tribe was probably something odd to see.
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P.S. There wasn't so much LaLu in this chapter, but I promise that there will be some in the next chapter!