"Thank you guys you have been amazing! We've been The Mages! Have a great night and get home safe!" I shout down the microphone as the shouts and screams from the audience almost drown me out! I join the girls at the front of the stage and bow to the audience and run off stage.
The technicians at the sides of the stage greet us with clapping, towels and big bottles of water which are very greatly received from us all. It's been almost 2 months since the guys have finished their tour and we are working our backsides off to make sure that the tour was the best possible. We run straight back to our dressing room to grab our things are we make our way back to the bus without hesitation. Since the boys have left their tour, it seems like we have gathered their fans aswell! Our fanbase is just amazing now and we have everything to thank them for.
As we sit down on the bus, the atmosphere around us calms down immensely. We now know that we have ten minutes before we are met again with fans watching us drive off to our next destination! The level of dedication of these fans is unreal sometimes. So much so that I actually still pinch myself for the luck that I have had over the past few years!
We manage to get past the fans and on the road in half an hour (after much manoeuvring from the bus and the security guards keeping the fans away from the bus while we wave goodbye to them.) As we all sit down and get ourselves comfortable, we all look at each other and smile.
"One more month to go" Levy says quietly breaking the silence. We all nod and sigh.
"I still can't believe all that has happened so far" Erza comments
"I know. It's unbelievable to think that in one month we are going to lying in our own beds, the boys a few minutes away, or in the same bed in Juvia and Lucy's case, and things will relatively go back to normal." Levy answers
"I wouldn't say normal, but the best it can be. We still have Juvia's wedding to finish planning!" I say grinning broadly at Juvia who is grinning as brightly back at me.
"Juvia can't wait to finish planning everything. Juvia wants to see Gray-sama." Suddenly the atmosphere changes. We all miss the boys and none of them have been able to come up for a while now. They visited us all of the time for the first month that they were off, but now that they are back writing in the studio, they have been so busy and of course we can not go and see them because we have our tour to finish.
"I know Juvia. We miss them all too" I say rubbing her back.
"How about we go dress shopping tomorrow since we have a day off?" I ask.
"Juvia only wants to go to one place and it is at home. Juvia already knows what dress she wants and has reserved it for Juvia to try in a month's time." Juvia answers making up all sigh
"Wow you are really are prepared. Are you sure it is the one for you?" Erza asked
Juvia nodded "Juvia has had this dress in mind since meeting Gray-sama on tour. Juvia went in to the shop and reserved it when we were back from the first tour just incase."
I sweat drop "Don't you think that was thinking a little too far ahead? Granted that he proposed to you AFTER you got the dress"
Juvia giggled "Juvia knew it was going to happen"
"What?" We all shout out
"Juvia overheard Gray-sama talking to Gajeel about it one night and found a square box one night in Gray-sama's sock drawer." She giggled a little louder
"Aww Poor Gray didn't stand a chance did he?" Levy said "Didn't it ruin it for you that you knew?"
"Not at all. It made Juvia more excited! Now it's actually happening, Juvia can not wait! Juvia wants it to be tomorrow!"
We carry on the night with wedding talk and helping Juvia plan whatever was left of the wedding to sort out when they got back home. It made Juvia feel much better after that and after a lengthy discussion on what Natsu's best man speech could possibly be like, we decided to go to sleep and get ready for another show tomorrow.
We arrived at our next venue early in the afternoon. Instead of going straight to the dressing rooms like we usually would, we decided to stay and sit in the seats and watch all of the people that were part of the technical crew set up our stage for the night. The lighting technician was preparing our spotlights and strobe lights as we sat down in some of the seats at the back of the room. Checking our watches, we knew that we had at least a few hours to kill before we had to do anything.
As we sat there in the seats, I took a deep sigh.
"This reminds me of when we were on the boy's tour and we sat just here and watched everything being set up." I said acting all nostalgic.
The others nodded. "We were so excited then and now look at how far we have come!"
"In one more month this will all be over and we all have to start again" Levy said.
Out of no where, there was the sound of music pounding through out the hall. The sound man must be testing the hall tonight as dance music was blasted everywhere. Grinning from one ear to the other, I looked at the others and we all didn't need telling twice. Grabbing Juvia's hand I grabbed her and the others down to the main floor where we all had a little dance, much to the sound technician's amusement but we didn't care. Being on tour and going around everywhere all of the time trying to act serious and constantly working, we learnt very quickly to learn to take time out for fun. Natsu and the others definitely made sure of that while we were on the last tour.
For the next 30 minutes, we were dancing and singing away together in the hall, letting the guy with a video camera who was touring our tour DVD record away, letting us show off the fact that we do have fun every now and again! At one point, I grabbed everyone into a group hug and screamed very loudly that I loved them all and we all stood there arms around each other screaming out lyrics to our favourite songs and giggling away. Mira Jane eventually found us and took us into our dressing room, where we would stay for the night.
As it got to an hour before the show was to begin, we heard our support band go on and the screams of fans got our blood pumping. I was currently sitting in the dressing room in front of the mirror putting on my make up when someone knocked on my door. I welcomed them in and a lady with a big bouquet of flowers came in.
"Flowers for Lucy Heartfilia?"
"That's me!" I say excited that I had a bunch of flowers. The lady put the flowers down on the table next to me, smiled and left.
Once she left, I inspected them. "I wonder who they are from?" I ask myself out loud. Natsu has never sent me flowers. Honestly, no one send me flowers. Maybe they are from a fan that discovered a way of getting them into my dressing room. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened, but they were always different people each time or people that I had worked with during the album release and the last tour.
The flowers were gorgeous. They were a mixture of red, pink, yellow and white roses. I finally found the card and read what looked like a little poem on them.
"Yellow for hair with a golden shine
Pink for the lips that are divine
White for the purity that's hard to find.
Red for the heart that I was to bind
Your Prince x "
Aww that's sweet….. Wait what? 'The heart that I was to bind'? Have I met them before? Is this a love confession? It's probably just another fan, but there is something about the handwriting that makes it familiar…like I've seen it before. Who is this prince? I decide to ignore it and let myself get ready for the show. I have too much on my mind at the moment to deal with some flowers from a fan.
For the next two weeks, more flowers turn up from the person with the same handwriting. It always starts with 'To My Princess' or something along those lines. Sometimes they had lovely poems that had a loving confession written in them or they were complimenting me on the last performance that I did. I don't think that I would have minded them, if the flowers were not sent to EVERY event we did for the last two weeks. I said something to Mira Jane about it and she has got security to try and find out where they are coming from, but they haven't had much luck. Since the person who is sending them to me is not doing anything wrong or harmful to me but sending flowers, the police does not need to be involved yet. I have deduced from the flowers that it must just be a huge fan of ours and don't get wrong, the gesture is really sweet but it's really starting to worry me and the others. Even Natsu and the boys are concerned. They came over the other night for a show and Natsu warned me about how crazy fans can get.
"Fans can be really obsessive Luce" He told me "Jellal had a really obsessive girl once called Ultear who followed him to every event, always went to the signings just to see him, knew everything about him and always kept sending him really random and sometimes very personal stuff. It got so bad that she managed to once find out where he lived and tried to break into his house!"
According to Natsu, the police were finally called after she tried to break into his house and was given a restraining order. Apparently it took Jellal months to not be paranoid leaving his front door afterwards. I had already told him that the person only signs their name at the bottom as 'Your Prince' and no further. They never state whether they are a boy or girl, nor have they said whether they have actually met before. I assumed that we probably had met before since we do a lot of fan signings and meet and greets after the shows but the messages have never said whether we have met. The closest I have is one of the messages saying that they are my 'admirer from afar' and that is it.
No precautions were actually made after this, other than the flowers that are sent get checked before they get sent to me. They said that if anything else was sent that could possibly be a threat, then more action would be taken. We managed to get in touch with the company that sent the flowers and they always say that the sender was down as anonymous when they ring. Even the number has been set to private so no one can ring it back! Stupid flower company! Hopefully things will not progress from there.
It's now a week to go until the tour finishes and once again we are playing another venue and another bouquet of flowers turn up. I sigh and the girls groan as we find out yet again that they are from the same guy. I take them from the security guard and set them down on the table nearby to be stopped by the security guard still standing there. Normally they give them to me and walk off.
"Miss Lucy. You need to read the card. This one has got us concerned." The security guard said.
I stare at her confused and take the greetings card that is in her hand and start to read it. My eyes widen and a chill runs down my spine as the message sinks in
"To My Princess
As these flowers begin to fall
Have you worked me out at all?
We knew each other long ago
and reunited at the ball
When the clock strikes midnight
What will the pumpkin show
Just who they thought you're meant to be
And that you were meant to be with me
Your Prince x
Who are you?
So who do you think they are from? I hope that I have not been too obvious with who the flowers are from! I know that there are a lot of time skips in this chapter but I need to move it all forward so that the story can progress without you guys being bored!
Let me know what you think!
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