Emotionless
Chapter 48, Winter Jade
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Normal Pov..
Lucy and Gray were unfortunately in the back part of the train, which instead of being a very smooth ride ended up being very rocky. Which meant no sleeping.
It was a big disappointment for Lucy, and a conversation starter for Gray.
Fortunately for the sake of the passengers of the train Gray kept his stripping habit in check, and was shrugged relaxingly into the smooth texture of the cloth.
His eyes stayed on the window, though he truly was curious about the newest member of Fairy Tail, and since he wouldn't be sleeping anytime soon he chose it best to get to know the girl.
"So.." He began awkwardly before softly clearing his throat and continuing now that he had the blonde's attention.
"Uh, what did you do before you joined Fairy Tail. I mean your seventeen right? Most of us joined when we were younger, eleven or twelve, although some of like Cana joined when we were under ten." Gray started with a question, one Lucy had expected to come at some point.
Lucy played the game though, and shrugged before answering. "I did mercenary work, picked up jobs here and there. I inherited Celestial magic from my mother before she passed when I was younger, and picked up a few tricks along the years. Eventually I created a new magic that has served me well, and have been doing mercenary work ever since." I told him, sounding believable enough. The "short story" of my life.
Gray nods accepting it. Though also not sharing his own, but it made no difference to Lucy since she already knew of it.
"What or how does Celestial magic work?" He asked, after a pause.
Lucy looked over at him, before pulling out one of her silver keys, Lyra's key to be specific. "Well, you use the Celestial chant to open their gate which is their portal from their world to ours and we create a contract on what days they're available and that's it."
"That's all?" Gray asks surprised by the revelation.
"Well, it takes a certain amount of magic to open their gates and to hold them out it consumes even more of the users magic. Three golden gates open at once is the amount known to hold open for a long period of time by a Celestial mage." Lucy tells him, straight from a history book.
"How many can you use?"
Lucy tapped her chin appearing in thought before answering. "Well, I only have three golden keys currently and I haven't had the need to have them all out at once since I have other magic I rely on, so I wouldn't know."
"Oh," Gray responds unintelligently.
Another silence passes, but this one long enough for Lucy to close her eyes in a half-attempt to fall asleep.
It doesn't work.
"So, how come your taking such a hard ranking quest as your first mission for the guild?" Gray asked, genuinely curious.
Lucy open an eye to stare at the ceiling, before zooming over to Gray.
"I'm looking to rent this apartment, and I need the jewels for it that I don't happen to have." Lucy tell him, before closing her eye and attempting to move into a better relaxing position that the train wasn't offering her.
"Why not try Fairy Hills? That's where most of the guild goes." Gray tells her, studying her.
"The apartment is cheaper and bigger for one, and it has a good view so I figure why should I pass up such a good deal?" She says, not as a question.
"I see your point." Gray replies, before asking, "How much more do you need to pay it off?"
"All of it."
"Oh, well I guess we can come to a deal if I won't be getting a share." Gray says in return, not even needing the jewels in the first place.
Or I could kick your butt off this train.. Lucy thinks to herself before actually saying, "What do you have in mind?"
"Well, in return for giving you all the jewels, all you have to do is go on another mission with me where we split 50/50."
"No problem." Lucy replies, and not a moment later the brakes on the train squeal announcing their arrival to their destination.
Gray looked at Lucy before standing up, grabbing the suitcase rail to keep himself from falling against the friction of the train brakes.
"Do we go straight to the client or find a hotel to crash at?" Gray asked Lucy, who remained in her seat with her eyes closed as the train came to a stop.
Her eyes opened and met his fellow onyx eyes.
"Let's head to the client's house and make it quick."
Gray and Lucy had arrived at the client's house, a civilian who lived in a noble house. It only took three knocks on the fancy wooden door before a man in a fresh clean black suit opened the door, his black hair slimmed back showing royalty but also servantry.
Something Lucy never liked.
"Ah, are you the mages we sent the request out for?" He looked them both up and down and failed to hide the glint of disgust in his eyes. "You certainly appear the part.."
Gray ultimately decided he didn't like the guy and was going to call him out on it when Lucy beat him to it by saying, "Well, you must be the client. You certainly look the part of looking to afraid to get even a speck of dust bunnies on that nice coat, and who knows maybe your afraid of bunnies as well."
The man clenched his jaw in embarrassment more than anger. Clearing his throat he opened the door wider for them and muttered something along the lines of getting his lord to speak to them.
Gray looked uncomfortable in the royal household, though he tried not to appear so but failed when he caught Lucy staring at him in what he assumed to be curiosity.
"Sorry, I've never been comfortable with nobles. They have so much money and yet they do nothing for anyone else but themselves with it." He told her, and Lucy nodded in either understanding or agreement, he couldn't tell.
And in truth, Lucy agreed with him. The royal family is as uncomfortable with her as it is with Gray, it's been years since she lived in such a way and couldn't imagine the amount of dislike she would feel if she had to return to such a life.
They didn't have to wait any longer though, for a man dressed in long red robes and white hair showed himself.
"Ah, so my calls have been answered. If you would please step in here with me.." The man or rather the lord told the two as he walked into his office, and stood by the window as Gray took a seat on a black leather chair with Lucy remaining with her back to the coffee brown wall.
"I have sent out the request for you to capture the bandit, his name is Renzo and he stole an artifact from me. I want you to capture Renzo and bring me back the artifact, and I know that I didn't include this is the request which is why I'll double your payment in return for the return of my artifact." The lord told them, expectantly.
Lucy knew this man had only done this because of the challenge Renzo would be, at least to the lord he was difficult. Thing is Lucy fought Kira and two other members of Leviathan Skull, the strongest dark mages in existence or at least in the other dimension they were.
She highly doubted Renzo would be a problem or challenge for her.
"Alright, so where are the bandits." Lucy asked him, and the lord smiled at their acceptance of the job.
"To the North of here, just near the mountains. You can't miss it." He told them, signally that they're dismissed Lucy left first with Gray quickly behind her.
"You know, it annoys me how he can just toy around with his money, knowing that 200,000 jewels means nothing to him while with us, it could mean everything." Gray told Lucy, as they walked to the Northern mountains.
"Yeah, he could have us do a lot of things for him, and the amount of jewels he would pay us would be nothing to him. We would be slaves to him in a sense, that is if we didn't overpower the man. There's two types of powers, to have the power of wealth and to have the power of strength and will. It goes unsaid that the power of wealth doesn't reach the heights of strength and will." Lucy replied in return, as the two reached a forest in which they proceeded to walk through.
"Fairy Tail has wealth I suppose, but that's to keep the guild running and the beer flowing." Gray said, chuckling slightly causing Lucy to split a smile as well.
"Ain't that the truth."
Soon, Lucy and Gray found themselves in front of a cave. Outside of the gave was a post with a skull hanging off the pike and on the skull was a wanted poster for the Cliffside Bandits, the bandits signature.
"Way to be obvious." Lucy noted, tearing off the form and reading it.
"Funny, the bounty on their heads was originally 200,000 jewels anyways while we just being paid 20,000 less. Annoying nobles." Lucy grumbled the last sentence as she tossed the slip of paper to the side and stepped into the cave, with Gray following in her wake.
"Hey boys! How much do ya think we'll get for this fancy ornament?" The Cliffside Bandit chief, Renzo called to his clan in question.
"1,000,000 jewels!"
"20,000,000 jewels!"
"100,000,000 jewels!"
One by one the bandits called out a price range, each shout the amount went up high and higher leaving Renzo laughing in glee.
He was so lost in his thoughts on wealth and glory he didn't notice the two mages creeping up from the entrance directly behind him.
"We'll be rich!" Renzo shouted, tossing a mug of sake into the crowd and in that moment Gray saw the opportunity to strike. Letting the ice form off his body it slowly absorbed into the ground and turned the ground in front of them to ice.
Soon, the drunk bandits were slipping backwards on the ice and Renzo was left staring confused before a jolt of realization shot through him and he turned to see Gray smirking at him.
He didn't seem to surprised though, maybe the liquor had already glossed his mind.
"Ah, so they only sent one mage after me? After us? Pathetic!" Renzo shouted, but was interrupted when the screams of his clan made their way to his ears. He glanced behind him to the sight of a green energy plowing right into the mages, right out of the open mouth of a blonde haired mage.
He left himself open by the movement and soon found an ice lance plowing into his side as he was sent plummeting into the cave wall.
Renzo wouldn't allow himself to be defeated so easily, and as he picked himself up from the wall he moved his hands upward, everything that wasn't living lifting into the air.
"You're telekinetic." Gray said, surprised but didn't lower his guard.
Renzo grinned, showing his yellow teeth in the toothy smile. "Of course! How do you think I've managed to steal what I've stolen from the wealthiest and highest armed nobles!" He shouted in pride, but stopped short when he saw Lucy walking to Gray's side, his prized ornament in her hands.
Lucy smirked and lifted the ornament up and said, "It's mine now."
Renzo smirked in return, "Actually that's the princess's. Hisui E. Fiore to be precise."
Lucy's eyes seemed to change into a dark shade, darker than black. "The princess's.." Lucy muttered, staring at the jeweled necklace that laid upon her hand.
Suddenly her eyes flashed with familiarity as she stared at the necklace made up of white peals with the pendant being a large dark oval-shaped emerald.
"Yes, the princess's! It is my best catch! She didn't even notice when I tugged it off her slim neck and into the pouch of my pocket!"
Lucy's eyes narrowed as she realized what they're client had planned. To get his hands on such an ornament from the princess of Fiore would bring him up in political status and wealth as reward for returning his necklace.
Lucy didn't like the princess, especially from what she had done to her in her original life. But she hated being used and deceived, lied to and cheated by even more. So, she would let this pass. In return however, she would teach the lord a lesson for trying to use them and their guild, and would return the necklace to it's rightful owner.
Lucy decided she didn't have to be nice about it though, she knew that if she didn't return the necklace than she would bring shame to the guild and mistrust from Fiore, something she could NOT afford.
"Well, we'll be sure to tell her your name when we return it to her." Lucy said, and tucked the necklace into her cloak before grinning at Renzo, an expression that brought shivers down his armored spine.
"Come on, Gray. Let's end this already."
"You got it."
At a last moment's attempt, Renzo attempted to raise all the weapons of his fallen comrades into the hair and impale the two skilled mages before him, but a single ice shield curtsey of Gray shielded them easily from the attack, and before Renzo could even blink a fist slammed an uppercut into his jaw sending him flying into the ceiling like he was launched from a cannon, before falling and landing a heap of defeat on the ground.
"Remind me never to make you angry." Gray said, staring at Lucy's hand that had knocked Renzo out in just one punch.
Lucy smiled and said, "And I wasn't even angry."
Gray shook his head in disbelief before forming ice cuffs in his hands and clipping them over Renzo's wrists, securing him from further attack whenever he happens to awake.
Gray heaved Renzo over his shoulder before looking over at the rest of the bandit clan in thought.
"Leave them, they'll split apart once they realize their leader is gone." Lucy told him, heading for the cave entrance.
Gray caught up with her with a job, not weighed down by the body over his shoulder at all.
"Do we return to the client?" He asked her, noticing how she was heading east towards the train station rather than south towards their client.
Lucy shook her head before answering, "No, the guy tried to use us for a political advantage and in result we would be to blame for the princess's necklace falling into his hands."
"Wait, so we're going to the Kingdom Castle of Fiore.." Gray began.
"To return the necklace to the princess and show Renzo as proof, and maybe even give a word that the lord was trying to use her necklace as a political establishment, which would surely destroy any political upgrade he could have wished for." Lucy finished.
"The princess?" Gray asked, still not believing where a simple job had gotten them in.
"Yeah, the bloody princess of the war." Lucy replied, stopping suddenly when she realized something.
The princess was barely even a women in her time, seven years after the time skip. If she was the next in line she would have to be under eighteen, because she would have to be eighteen or older to receive the crown and title as Queen. Which would mean the princess is already a teenager now, rather than after the seven year time skip caused by Tenro Island.
"Interesting." Lucy noted aloud, drawling Gray's attention.
"How so?"
Lucy chuckled, walking into a ticket stand ignoring the odd looks they got by Gray since he was carrying a body over his shoulder.
"Because we're just simple mages about to meet the princess of course." Lucy lied easily, paying for her ticket with the last of her jewels before allowing Gray to pay for his own.
As the two stepped unto a train and found a seat fortunately in the middle and not the back this time, Gray dumped Renzo's body up in the luggage rack.
By the train had started, Gray and Lucy were already seated and were staring at the necklace that Lucy was examining in front of her.
"Hey Lucy?" Gray asked suddenly.
"Hmm?" Lucy hummed in question back.
"I was wondering, since we'll probably get paid equally of 90,000 jewels or more for returning the necklace to the princess, you wouldn't have to go on another mission with me." Gray stated.
Lucy smirked and looked up to him. "What's your question then?"
Gray looked at her, not surprised she had caught on so easily.
"I was wondering if you would like to form a team, your a good fighter and partner."
Lucy thought about it a moment before nodding to the joy of Gray.
"But, I get to pick the name."
Gray groaned but nodded.
"I better not regret this." He joked, as Lucy tapped her chin in thought.
"Frozen Soul?" Lucy asked.
"No." Was Gray's simple reply.
"Hmm, Raging Seas?"
"No."
"Frozen Leviathan?"
"No."
"Frosty the Snow Man?"
"Hell no."
"Um, Blue Dragon?"
"Sounds like Natsu."
"That's a no then. Okay, how about Devil's cut?" Lucy tried again.
"Mirajane." Gray only had to say her name before Lucy understood and seemed to think over it longer.
A light suddenly sparked in her eyes.
"I think I got it.." Lucy began, and Gray lifted his eyebrows in question.
"How about, Winter Jade?"
Woo, there. I think that turned out alright don't you?
Always accepting OCs once again, though I'm mostly looking for keys right now.
Also, I decided to change to Military keys into Oceanic keys. I'll have to go back and change that later, but this is just a heads up for now.
Thanks for everyone's support and read like crazy!
Sincerely,
Shadow
