It's that time of year again, I start school tomorrow *cries* so there is no guarantee that I will be updating everyday like I am now, it's just a warning. I do not own Fairy Tail.
~Lucy's POV~
We were close to the ground, like a second from landing kind of close. I was ready to feel the excruciating pain of death, but then there was a whoosh of air that cushioned our fall. Not completely though, I think I dislocated my shoulder again.
I rolled over a bit and got a good look at Astrid. She was bleeding, and bad. Ok, first thing's first.
"Virgo!" I summoned one of my spirits.
"Punishment Princess?" The maid bowed.
"No! Can you pop my shoulder back into place again?" I asked.
"Hai." She did so.
"Thanks Virgo, you can go back now." I smiled weakly while rubbing my shoulder.
She disappeared in a shimmering golden light.
"Wait right there Ash." I whispered to the unconscious girl.
Then I teleported to Shirotsume and ran to the nearest medical store. I grabbed a basket and threw random items inside. Toothpaste, paper towels, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, cotton swabs, Q-tips, lollipops, a razor, chips, gauze, and bandages, lots and lots of bandages.
Then I bounced back to where Astrid was and kneeled beside her. I lifted up her shirt to see the wound and quickly applied the rubbing alcohol. She winced a lot but never woke up. I then cleaned the surrounding area with the paper towels.
Once I got a good look at the wound I was certain that none of these supplies would help me right now. There were dark shadows seeping out of her wound. Astrid can be quite an evil person if she wants, but not evil enough for shadows to be traveling throughout her body.
"What is this?!" I exclaimed.
"LUCY!" I heard a voice off in the distance.
It was too low pitched to be Liz, so…Damon? I looked up from my wounded cousin. It was Sting, of all people. That's when everything clicked into place.
It was Sting who almost hit Liz. It was Sting who hit my wyvern. And Rogue hit Astrid, and now she could die! It was all their fault that this was happening.
I ignored him and turned back to Astrid. I quickly applied the gauze. As I was wrapping the bandage around her side, the dark shadows continued to seep out. Two droplets of water fell on my hand.
Huh? It was raining? I looked up, but there wasn't any rain. I felt something tickle my face and I touched me cheek, tears? I quickly wiped them away. Sting and Rogue were close now, only a few meters away with their Exceeds trailing behind them.
"Lucy!" Sting called my name again.
I shot him an evil glare that could rival Erza's or even Astrid's. He froze in his steps. Rogue did too, but for a different reason. His face paled when he saw Astrid, just laying there.
"D-Did I…?" He stuttered.
"Yeah, yeah you did." I showed no sympathy.
"A-At least we got a wyvern." Sting tried to joke.
"Yeah, you got my wyvern." I glared at him again.
I turned my attention to my blue wyvern. My expression softened, I examined the injured wing.
"Can you go into tokabi mode and find the others?" I wondered.
She nodded in response, and poofed. Thousands of tokabi, each a different shade of blue, scuttled off into the direction of the mountains. I noticed that each tokabi had a small wound just above the left shoulder.
"Lucy I-" Sting tried to say something, probably an apology or something.
"I don't want to hear it." I snapped.
I shakily walked over to Astrid and knelt beside her again.
"Wh-What's up with th-the sh-shadows?" I asked.
"It's a unique attack use b-by the Sh-Shadow Dragon." Rogue choked out.
"What does it do?" I asked nervously.
"I-I thought they were only wyverns, I didn't know Astrid was up there otherwise I never would have-"
"What. Does. It. Do?" I asked more seriously.
"It's a lethal attack. One hit is all it takes to kill."
~Lucy's POV~
Astrid's going to die…Astrid's going to die….Astrid's going to die…
That sentence rang out through my head.
Liz is going to love thi- wait, that's not a good thing!
Well, now all I have to do it wait.
I heaved out a sigh and waited.
"Uh…Lucy?" Sting waved his hand in front of me.
"Hm?" I looked at him, anger forgotten.
There was no point at being mad at either of them; it was obvious what this was.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" He asked.
"Oh, well this is obviously a bad dream, so all I have to do is wait for me to wake up, or wait for the real Astrid to splash me with ice cold water and wake up." I said with a smile.
"But this isn't a dream." Rogue said, still pretty depressed.
"Don't be silly, I know a dream when I have one." I laughed it off. "I'll prove it."
I reached over and yanked one of Astrid's daggers off her chain and held it up. Both Dragon Slayers and their Exceeds widened their eyes when they saw me drag the weapon across my arm.
"Lucy!" Sting snatched the weapon away from me and tossed it aside.
"What? See? No blood." I grinned. "Just a really bad dream."
Their jaws dropped. (A/N And I'm sure yours did too) And that's when the wave of water hit me like a typhoon.
Of course it didn't affect me that much though since I can breathe underwater and all. But it was still freezing like I predicted.
"Finally." Astrid huffed. "I thought you were dead or something."
"Yeah, I thought you were dead for a moment too." I got up and stretched.
"Huh?" She raised a brow.
"Nothing, just some weird dream." I shrugged it off.
"I want to hear it. You can tell me when we're on our way to the next city, it seemed like this month would never end." She sighed.
"Now if you'll excuse me," I got up. "I need to change out of these soaked clothes."
"Hey, it's not my fault; you're the one who overslept." She raised her hands in defense.
Half an hour later, we were in the air.
"Now spill." Astrid smirked.
"Okay, so we had just passed Mt. Hakobe…" I began to tell her my dream.
Damon and Liz leaned in to listen, and I bet Silvia was as well. I felt my wyvern shudder underneath me when I got to the part where she got shot in the wing. Astrid scoffed in disbelief while Liz laughed her head off when Astrid was hit by Rogue's shadow.
"Of course I would, I'm just that brilliant." Astrid scoffed.
I had just explained how Astrid had cushioned our fall with the air.
"Yeah right." I heard Liz mumble.
I continued on, going to the medical store, seeing Sting and Rogue.
"Then I sliced my arm with your dagger and woke up." I finished.
"Rogue isn't that stupid to shoot blindly in the air." Astrid snorted. "Sting, probably, but not Rogue."
"Whatever." I shrugged. "It was just a dream after all."
"Ugh, can you go any faster?!" Astrid hissed.
It was obviously directed towards Silvia, and her wyvern jerked her of its back in response.
"Oof!" She landed on a cloud. "Funny, but you don't really expect me to cloud jump all the way to wherever we're going?" Astrid crossed her arms.
The silver wyvern flew higher and did a barrel roll in the air and if to say, 'Uh, Yeah'.
"Tch, lousy overgrown lizards. Well fine." Astrid leaped to the next cloud. "See if I care."
~Astrid's POV~
Wow, all this cloud jumping was starting to make my legs ache.
"Are we almost th- oh, nevermind." A cluster of buildings came into view.
Just in time too, the clouds were starting to thin out.
"Clover Town?" Lucy examined the town below us.
"It's small." I scrunched up my nose. "Lower chance of owning some ice cream store."
"Can we visit a magic store this time? Lucy whined. "All we ever do is get ice cream."
"Well, it's not my fault that we get lost for half the day." I grumbled. "And by the time we actually locate the dang shop it's close to closing time."
"Can we just visit the magic shop first real quick? Pleeeeaaaase?" Lucy looked at me with those eyes.
"Yeah Ashtwid, pweeeaase?" Liz smirked and then looked at me with those eyes as well.
Damon gave me an apologetic look as if to say 'I'm not arguing on this one' and turned away.
"F-Fine." My eye twitched. "Five minutes, that's all you get."
"Wait, why do we have to ask you anyways?" Lucy thought aloud.
"Because I'm the oldest." I smirked.
"No, Silvia is." Liz scoffed.
"Silvia isn't human." I pointed out.
"She can be if she wants." Liz huffed.
"That's only because she's a freaky overgrown lizard with weird powers." I scoffed.
"Stop calling her that! She's a dragon!" Liz hissed.
"Oh yeah?" I raised a brow. "If you were to shrink her and then strip her of her powers, than what would she be? Right, a lizard."
"But she'd still be a really nice lizard…" Liz muttered.
"Yeah, a lizard that overworks us for a month and only gives us a day of freedom." I rolled my eyes.
"That is not true! Silvia is like a calm motherly figure." Liz's eyes sparked.
"Yeah, some mother she is. She didn't make a move to save you from the quick sand until the last minute." I laughed.
"It was a t-test." Liz shuddered at the memory.
"Sure it was." I laughed some more at her reaction.
"What were we talking about again?" Lucy sighed.
"How were going to go to the ice cream store first." I reminded her.
"Oh ye- wait, I thought we were going to the magic store!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah yeah, are we going to land or what?" I huffed.
With an irritated grunt, my silvery scaled wyvern swooped down lower to the ground along with the other three wyverns.
"Wait, where are the jewels?!" I sup around and searched for the money.
"Looking for this?" Lucy held the bag.
"Why you-!" I ran over to murder her.
"Eep!" She disappeared a split second before I could tackle her down.
"Liz catch!" Lucy was a few meters away and tossed the bag over to the purplette.
"Hehe…" I cracked my knuckled and made my way over to the frightened girl.
But of course, she too, vanished and appeared behind Damon.
"Hold this!" She hissed, tossing it his way.
"Huh? Wait no!" But he already had it in his hands.
"Oh? So you're going to join them too huh?" I grinned.
"N-No! Here, take it." He held out the bag.
"Damon, no!" Lucy yelled and snatched it out of his hands.
"I'M NOT GIVING IT BACK UNTIL WE GO TO THE MAGIC STORE!" She ran for her life, me at her heels, and the rest trailing not far behind.
~Lucy's POV~
I ran through the streets of Clover Town at full speed. I could hear Astrid's light steps behind me.
"Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!" I clutched the bag closer to my chest.
"Hand over the money and I won't." I heard her chuckle.
"But I want to go to the magic store!" I spotted said place around the corner.
I made a sharp right turn and quickly entered the magic shop.
"How may I help you to…day?" The shopkeeper looked at me strangely as I darted through the aisles in search for a hiding spot.
Seconds later, I could hear the doors burst open.
"Luuuucy~" And innocent voice cooed.
But I knew there was nothing innocent about that voice at all I shuddered and hid behind a rack of color changing clothes. Ok sor far so goo-
"Oh, there you are." I heard her and someone yanked me out of my hiding spot.
"A-Astrid," I smiled weakly. "I was just uh, looking for clothes."
"Uh huh, give me the bag." She tried to grab it, but I held it out of her grasp.
"No." I huffed.
"Lucy…" Astrid growled. "Give *grab* me *grab* the *grab *BAG!" She kept trying get it.
"But I want to buy something from here!" I whined.
"Tch, what's with you and magic stores? You have some kind of obsession." Astrid rolled her eyes.
"I'm the one who has an obsession?!" I exclaimed. "You're one to talk."
"Lucy?" Someone said.
"Hm?" I turned around. "Lyon?!"
"I thought I heard a familiar voice around here." He nodded.
"What brings you here?" I asked.
"I was on a job with my team, and Sherry wanted to stop by the magic store." He explained. "And you? Where's the rest of team Natsu?"
"Here we go again." Astrid groaned. "Seriously Luce, you should just write a letter and hand it to anyone who asks."
"Um…I kind of left." I scratched the back of my neck.
"Why leave Team Natsu? You looked happy." Lyon looked confused.
"Not Team Natsu, the guild. I'm surprised you haven't heard." I chuckled softly.
"Hmm," Lyon stared at the ground. "Why not join Lamia Scale?"
"Eh?!" Say what now?
"This again?" Astrid huffed. "Could you make this quick? I still have to pester Lucy and get my bag back."
"And you are?" Lyon raised a brow.
"Astrid." She crossed her arms.
"My name is Lyon Vastia." He held out his hand, which Astrid didn't shake.
"Yeah, I heard." She sighed. "I'll be looking at these magic coolers, I heard they can keep things frozen for up to a month, it's perfect."
"Have you thought about what I said?" He asked.
"Huh? What'd you say?" What was he talking about?
"Joining Lamia Scale." He reminded me.
"Oh yeah, no thanks. I'm kind of busy." I shrugged it off.
"I see," He shrugged it off like it was expected.
"Was there any particular reason you wanted me to join?" I asked.
"Honestly? I was wondering if I could make Juvia jealous. And I would have loved to see the look on Gray's face if he found out a member of his old guild joined mine." He chuckled.
"I thought it'd be something like that." I smiled. "Good luck with Juvia, although she seems to be madly in love with Gray."
"Oi, just because he won the fight on the island doesn't mean he's going to get Juvia." He argued.
"Lyon!" Sherry ran over. "Lucy? Oh, Lyon, Jura is waiting outside along with the others."
"Well I'd better get going then." He said.
"Bye." I waved.
"Astrid?" I walked over to where the coolers were. "Where'd you g- kya!"
Astrid, being the sneaky devil she is, tripped me and snatched the bag away when I fell and dropped it.
"VICTORY IS MINE!" She hollered as she held the bag in the air and sprinted off to wherever the ice cream store was.
Yes! Mission complete chapter finished!
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