AN- I didn't die! yay! you might miss next weeks chapter as I'm on holiday again and we need to write some more chapters as you eager beavers are catching up with us. Only got about 2 chapters left that we have written... Whoops!

Anyway you guys get to hear about the celestial spirits this time round :D Personally I love how I have written them. But meh we are all allowed opinions.

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CHAPTER NINE: HUNGRY, NOLGASTIC, IRRITATED

Levy's POV

GOD DAMN THESE THIN WALLS I cursed silently as I heard everyone's raised voices from downstairs. I clambered out of bed and groggily trudged over to my door, as I stretched my arms up above my head. I grasped the door handle and pulled - but it wouldn't budge - and that's when it struck me it was a push door… I should have just gave up and went back to bed but nooooooooo Levy didn't do that. Levy thought it would be good to go investigate that infernal ruckus.

The closer I got the less I wanted to do this, it sounded worse than Jet and Droy on valentine's day… Apart from the noise something else was off, but I couldn't tell what it was. Hesitantly I pushed the kitchen door open as I took in the scene.

Natsu was practically crying with his head on the desk voicing his signature whine, Gray was shouting across the table at Lucy who stubbornly had her arms crossed over her chest looking defiantly at Grays accusations - and that was only the table-. Yes Lucy vs Gray was making up most of the noise but I recognised a gruff voice from across the kitchen's island. There and behold was Gajeel looking positively pissed off pointing one of his fingers at Icarus who looked on exasperated and irritated. Gajeel's gonna get himself killed... After taking in the scene for a moment was when I actually listened to my surroundings.

"SO WHAT YOU WASTED A DAY AND DIDN'T EVEN DO A SIMPLE TASK?!" Gray waved his hands in frustration.

"OH I'M SORRY THAT IT WAS ALL MY FAULT, IT'S NOT LIKE I HAD A CURFEW AND A REWARD TO COLLECT" Lucy gritted her teeth and replied as poor Natsu in the background just sank lower in his chair.

"Guys I think I'm gonna die due to lack of nutrition." The pink blob complained as he tried to sink under the table. But no mercy...

"SHUT IT NATSU"

"SHUT UP FLAMEBRAINS,"

I just gingerly sidestepped that conversation, it wasn't like they noticed me slipping into the kitchen, there was a small radio playing a flute solo of some sort which was totally off theme with all the violence running deep in the rooms air. I wonder where Icarus put the breakfast, maybe it's in the grill to keep warm till everyones here… I laughed slightly as I felt my stomach rumble.

"So Icarus when you serving breakfast?" I said while coming up behind Gajeel, Icarus just shot me an apologetic smile and opened his mouth for an explanation. To be cut off by Gajeel.

"Clever boy over here didn't make any," Gajeel motioned to Icarus with his thumb, the look of betrayal was hilarious from Gajeel.

"Gajeel I'm sure that's fine, he is our boss if anything we should be making breakfast for him," I chuckled, slightly disappointed no pancakes.

"Suck up," Gajeel muttered as he huffed in defeat.

"Lucy and Natsu forgot the food shop yesterday…" Icarus said kindly as he laughed at Gray and Lucy's argument at the opposite end of the room. That's when we all grew quiet on this side of the door when we saw Titania enter the room, the rest of our crew didn't take notice of the ticking time bomb that angrily sat at the head of the table looking at them. Her disapproving stare morphed into one of hate and homicide as they carried on the argument oblivious to her.

"Shouldn't we shut them up..?" I whispered out the corner of my mouth to Icarus who just shrugged helplessly before answering.

"It's too late for that now…" And boy how right he was.

"EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP NOW, OR ELSE!" Titania bellowed as she slammed the butter knife into the table.

"That's mahogany…" Icarus quietly mourned as the whole room was plunged into a deafening silence. Well except for that infernal radio which was still strutting away at full volume.

"Why is it not quiet? What is this rubbish" Titania seethed.

"Er-Well it's the radio…" I piped up slightly rubbing my neck staring at the knife which was embedded upright in the wood..

"Levy I thought you were smart? I don't need you stating the obvious." She hissed, I should probably shut up now...

"It's Eisenwald orchestra," Icarus answered as he realised no one else dared to speak to the demoness at the head of the table.

"Interesting…" She trailed off before asking him a question, "Do we have any heists coming up?"

"Not really solid ones till the Blue Pegasus's Pageant, why?" Icarus asked casually as he came and sat at the other head of the table.

"Can we steal their goddamn flute and sell it, they are goddamn awful." Titania said while throwing the fork at the radio causing it to fly backwards into Gajeel next to me, I suppressed a giggle at that as I came and sat next to Lucy and Gajeel followed suit as he sat down opposite me. Was she planning on breaking up an orchestra because she is hungry and grouchy in the mornings? How was Icarus going to approve of it?!

"Fine, anyone else got any objections?" Icarus almost said lazily as he eyed Gray's hand as he hesitantly raised it.

"Why?" He voiced all of our questions in one word.

"Because we can. Also it is good practise don't ask questions and if we succeed I'll take us back to Take Over again for celebration." Everyone seemed satisfied with that answer I guess we really didn't need an excuse, we are criminals after all.

"Lucy get the details come see me asap, everyone else return here in 2 hours for a briefing." Said in a tone with no room to argue as he rose from the table and walked out the door, Titania following. And business Icarus was back again.

Lucy's POV

PICK UP THE DAMN PHONE! I let out a frustrated cry as I threw the phone onto my bed as I paced my dorm room. I was completely oblivious to a pink ninja sneaking into my room. Suddenly I was tackled to the ground and tickled by the menace.

"Argh! Natsu! Stop! PLEASEEE," I tried batting the boy off of me but to no avail.

"Stop frowning then!" Natsu chuckled,

"Fine, Fine, Fine" I laughed as well as I rose to my feet looking down at the boy who had just flopped onto the ground.

"Wassup? Anyway?" Natsu asked titling his head to the side.

"Someone wasn't picking up the phone," I said rolling my eyes, and thus causing Loke's creepy power of anti-sass to strike up, as the phone began to ring. I yelped in surprise as I grappled for the phone and quickly accept the call as I placed the phone near my ear.

"Did you roll you eyes at me?" Loke said coldly.

"No," I rushed to answer the last thing I need was a ticked off Loke.

"Don't lie," He snapped,

"Fuck you! I was trying to reach you, and you weren't answering." I said in defeat as I sank down to the bed and remembered a salmon haired boy looking at me curiously. I motioned for him to leave my room as I shooed at him. I craned my neck back as I stared at the ceiling waiting for my salty informative to stop being a bitch and get professional. Wait this is Loke we are talking about. I narrowed my eyes as I heard girls giggling again on the other side of static.

"For the love of the celestial gods, do not tell me you have girls round! I thought I sent you there to work! Ugh!" All I could hear was Loke's nervous laugh across the line.

"It's for information…" He trailed off weakly.

"No Loke, I will leave you with your professional job, I wouldn't want to get in the way, think about Aries!" I drawled venomously, "I'll just text Taurus instead."

I ended the call as I threw my phone again back onto the bed as I flopped down as well staring at the uneven ceiling paint as well..

"Luce? Did you just break up with your boyfriend? Was he cheating on you while he was meant to be working? Are you alright?" Natsu called from the doorway, as he shifted his weight to one of his feet. My boyfriend? - wait did he think me and Loke were a thing?!

"No, Loke isn't my boyfriend…" I laughed, "He is just a work mate, I guess I'm his boss?" Boss sounded weird, we were more like friends…

"It's for the job, how do you think I get to know all this information Natsu," I giggled, "I don't just magic it up,"

"I thought Gray said it was your stalker powers," And cue the funky hand movement and we both burst into laughter.

"Nah, I only use that on special occasions," I winked, "Gimme a sec I gotta text someone,"

Taylor, I need you to get all the information on the Eisenwald tour information, and how good their security is when transporting? Also what routes they take?

See you soon! Lucy

Natsu looked at my phone over my shoulder, before asking, "Is that all you do is ask your friends?"

"NO! I get most of it myself but I can't always go trifling through the files or they will catch on so by having 11 other people rifling different files makes it less easy to get caught,especially when we are all shipped around the world to watch different companies" I said appalled that all he thought my job was to chat with my friends.

Lucy - Sure I emailed all the leads I got and sent some to Sagittarius because Lucy it's on the Heartfillia Railroad, and thought it would be nice to see a familiar face. Love you - Taylor

On the railroads just my luck… We shouldn't be on their for long… Everything will be fine. Natsu interrupted that train of thought.

"Do you miss them?" Natsu asked as he lay down next to me looking up at the ceiling, "The paints uneven,"

Natsu's POV

"Do you miss them?" I asked quietly as I lay down next to her and stared off to the ceiling, when I noticed the paint, "The paints uneven,"

I felt her weight shift as she rolled off the bed and walked up the wall with all the photos that had started to grow more and more each day but she plucked one of the original ones and brought it back over to the bed, as I got up and shuffled to sit next her on the edge of the bed to look over her shoulder.

"Yeah I miss them tons, we haven't met in ages we occasionally have massive skype calls," Lucy smiled as if reliving the memory, "But the first time we all met in Crocus city centre near the fountain,"

Lucy titled the photograph so I could see better, the first thought I had was what a bunch of misfits… Lucy was standing in the middle of the huddle with a massive grin dominating her face as her eyes were alight with happiness as she grinned at the camera wearing a white vest top and a black skirt while her hair was let down loose -stop staring at Lucy, god Dragneel-, to her right was a girl with short pink hair and a black pinafore dress with eyes sky blue as she had an arm placed loosely round Lucy's shoulders -I'm guessing she was slightly older than Lucy -, carrying onto the right was four people, two were massive boys, one was more lanky with a green button-up shirt, black hair in a mop like Grays -I think he seems around 25 - who was holding a small girl with bright blue hair on his shoulders who was pulling his hair, the photo had captured her in the middle of giggling -She only seems about 13 if that?! How young was Lucy when she got in the business -. The second male was holding the blue girls twin, from what I could gather they both looked extremely similar except a boy version, the little boy was being held up by a single arm as he sat in the palm of someone's hand. That guy was a mountain! He was even bigger than Gajeel! He held the boy in the palm of his hand as if it was nothing, but guessing from the huge muscles it was nothing, the man in question had short black hair, a nose ring and amber eyes which were looking at Lucy deeply as a small smile spread on his lips. Was that Leo? What was between him and Lucy…? I shook my head at that thought as I turned to look at who was on Lucy's left, it was couples galore! At first there was a boy kneeling on one knee with a shock of spiky ginger hair, with glasses as he captured someone else's hand and was mid kiss, the girl's hand that he was kissing was blushing furiously as she had pink curly hair in a pastel pink outfit, - the couple seemed similar age around 20 - and finally there was a second couple, the boy had half his hair coloured red and the second half bleached white, his skin was the colour of caramel, the opposite to his girlfriend who had long blue hair to her waist and pale porcelain skin, and a semi-permanent scowl on her face but she happily obliged to the male's hand around her waist crushing her close to his chest.. Then I looked closer and saw a boy aged about 26 with shades and dreads as he struck a dance pose next to the couple, there was also another person aged the oldest at around early thirties with white hair combed back, and a stern smile in a pinstripe suit who looked like he was mid job of getting back into place next to the buff male.

"There definitely different…" I chuckled as she playfully hit me,

"Shut up!" She blushed as a small smile slipped on her face, "I miss them lots,"

"Tell me about them." If they made Lucy this happy, I want to know more about them.

"Okay, I'll tell you about them right to left." She grinned as she looked down at the photo.

"The boy striking a pose is Cameron, or as we call him Cancer -he loves to dance for some unknown reason! Next is Scott aka Scorpio - god knows why he dyed his hair that way. The moody looking girl in his arms is his girlfriend of 8 years, Alyssa or Aquarius, she may seem bitchy but she is a big softy. Next is Aries and Leo, their names are Abby and Loke (They have a thing but he isn't ready to properly admit it!) Next it's me! Then the girl next to me is Violet code name Virgo, she is one of the first people I met here, the tall boy is called Sampson his is Sagittarius -he is such a gentleman- next to him is Taylor which is Taurus - big on the brawn but got no brains, but his heart's in the right place..., They are both holding the twins Gemma and Mitchell together they are Gemini or Gemi and Mini, I have no clue when they first joined but awh well . The older one is Christian / Capricorn he just set the timer on the photo but he didn't get back in line in time…." Lucy giggled as her eyes glossed over as if reliving the memory.

"I'd love to meet them," I elbowed her in the side to get her back from la la land, "You are such a space case."

"Shut up! And of course I think we are going to meet up again soon…" She got up from the bed again and tapped it back to its righteous place on her wall. "Anyway I gotta get the information, I'll be down for the briefing you go and get ready,"

"But I'm already ready…." I whined, I didn't want to leave yet.

"Tough luck!" She smacked me on the upside of the head and opened her bedroom door, "Go before I Lucy Kick ya!"

I would rather I stay intact so, I slinked out of the room and went towards the kitchen, dragging my feet down the stairs.

"Lucy kicked ya out her room?" Gray laughed at me before looking back down to his phone texting someone a reply, probably Juvia.

"Shut it ice-cake," I mumbled as I lay my head on the table.

"You likeeee her," Gray tautened as he poked me in the back of the head,

"Fuck. Off." I grunted punching him in the jaw.

"WHAT THE HELL MATCH DICK!" Gray protested as he kicked me in the leg.

Which triggered an all out war for the next few hours till Levy and Gajeel opened the kitchen door and just stood there and watched our stupidity, Gajeel took a step forward,

"Don't. You. Even. Dare." Levy hissed as she came and sat at the table motioning for Gajeel to come sit.

Gray and I stopped fighting as we looked like goldfish as our jaws hit the floor Screwhead being bossed around by Levy?!

"Whipped!" Gray and I sang together in unison, before we turned to scowl at each other. I was about to voice my displeasure at him thinking the same as me, when Lucy came tumbling into the room with lots of files piled high as she came and dropped the stack onto the table. She started rifling through the papers at record speed until she froze when she saw Icarus and Titania enter the room. Why does she look so uncomfortable. Icarus and Tiantia sat nearby as she quickly asked Levy to switch the lights off and flipped a laptop open on the table.

"So Eisenwald orchestra is made up of multiple instruments, they also have some lead musicians that are touring to Crocus for tomorrow night, Eigar is their lead flute musician, i'm guessing that his flute will catch us the highest price," Lucy said confidently as a picture of a man with white hair was shown on the screen along with his flute, "anddd it was the instrument that annoyed Titania this morning…" she said nervously as she met Titania's gaze.

"Good that was the plan, now proceed with the details." Titania praised as she started to form a malicious grin.

"Right! So tonight they are going to finish their tour in Magnolia and catch the train to Oshibana for their next gig, so we can't attack tonight as it will be teaming with security, so we are going to launch this mission when they are travelling. We need to reach them before they get into the train, they will be using the Heartfillia Railroads and I'm guessing first class therefore it will be a pain getting into that carriage, that's why we need to try get to them before they get on the train or after they just exited their train." Lucy continued, How come we couldn't get them while on the train? Wouldn't the security be either more lax.

"Lu wouldn't it be easier if we tried on the train as well…?" Levy asked quietly, we all looked at Lucy who seemed to be sweating furiously and her gaze kept glaring at Titania and Icarus who just shrugged helplessly.

"FINE! Fine!," Lucy muttered more to herself than to anyone else before regaining her strong voice,

"So here's the plan-"

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