As always - Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima and everything Pradesh belongs to Desna.
A/N - This is a short one but it was a good stop point. As always, please read and review.
Bickslow updated Lucy on all of the recent guild happenings. Jellal and Juvia were inseparable and Jellal was going to talk to the Master about joining Fairy Tail. This also explained why Meredy was taking off to visit Sorano. Crime Sorciere was disbanding. He himself was going to join them on their journey to Bosco and let Cobra know. He would know how to contact Macbeth. Sorano would probably join her sister's guild, Meredy was going to try to find Richard and Sawyer and check out Mermaid Heel.
Lucy nodded and sipped her wine when she realized something. "But how can you go to Bosco?"
Bickslow grinned, "They lifted the ban on Seith mages." Lucy jumped out of her chair to circle the table and give him a giant hug. Lucas paused eating his ice cream and eyed this new mage warily.
"I thought all Seith mages were dark." he said bluntly.
"No, but most are. It's a very tempting magic for dark guilds, but just like your magic it can be used for good or bad." he explained very simply, watching Lucas absorb the information. "Did you know there can be dark Celestial mages? And no one would ever consider Lucy dark right? Vander too, he uses shadow magic which is normally considered dark by default." Lucas nodded and continued his ice cream pondering what a dark Celestial mage would be like.
Lucy sat back in her seat watching the two. "Maybe when we get back to the hotel you can introduce him to your babies?"
"Babies? You left babies at the hotel?" Bickslow cackled and let his tongue loll out. He winked at Lucas, "You'll see." He then resumed discussing his return to Bosco with the blonde.
Lucas was fascinated with the totems and kept peppering the Seith mage with questions about his magic. Why was it banned? What happened when had to leave Bosco? How did he learn how to use his magic? How did he fight with them? What happened if a totem was damaged? Each question was answered thoroughly with a patience Lucy didn't know the Seith had. Eventually, she checked with Horologium and informed the boys it was time to head to bed because they had an early train to catch. Lucas pouted but started saying his goodbyes. "He can stay here tonight if it's okay with you." Bickslow told Lucy, "Meredy won't be back so I have an extra bed." Lucas looked so excited she couldn't have said no even if she wanted to.
Lucy gave a small lecture to Lucas about not staying up all night and behaving before being shoved out of the room by a laughing Bickslow. As she returned to her room she remembered why Meredy was conveniently missing and silently prayed to every God she knew that the walls in this hotel were thick. Vander's room was next to hers.
It turned out that the walls were not quite thick enough to drown out all of the delighted squeals and moans from the woman. After trying unsuccessfully to mute the noises with the pillow over her head she called upon Virgo for some ear plugs. Closing her eyes in silence at last she couldn't help but wonder what Vander was doing to make Meredy make those noises. Cana and Mira always told her about how amazing it could be. Maybe it was time to 'give up her v-card' as Cana put it. It wasn't like she was holding onto it for marriage or anything, but she had a tendency to get attached to people and she didn't know if she could emotionally separate the activity. She wanted to help out Gray and Natsu and she would have to in order to accomplish that. But she firmly decided, she didn't want her first time to be with them. It was going to be impossibly awkward already.
She supposed it was a good thing they were heading to Bosco, this was definitely something she could work out there. She knew enough from Vander and Bickslow to know that sex was considered just a sharing of pleasure and didn't have strings attached there. She thought about the Boscans she knew. Bickslow was an infamous ladie's man in Fiore, there was also a rumor that it wasn't even just women with him. He was acrobatic and fit and downright gorgeous if you could get him into street clothes without the visor. She'd seen him in swim trunks a few times and there was no denying his appeal. She crossed him off the list of possibilities though as she thought of Laxus's reaction. For some reason after Fairy Tail was rebuilt, Laxus decided she was his little sister and was over protective to the max. She was sure half the reason Bickslow was there was to spy on her.
Cristoff was also built and sexy as hell, but he was mated to Erza and off everyone's list. Lucy smiled as she realized she would get to see Erza soon. That left Vander. She wasn't sure he'd refuse to have sex with anyone and had definitely showin interest in her. She trusted him not to get attached, but she had reservations if she could do the same. She liked him a lot. He was fun, smart, witty, skilled to all hell and dedicated to his magic. He was also a sight to behold in clothes or not. Perhaps she would meet someone else in Bosco. Sighing she fell into a troubled sleep. She didn't like not having a plan.