Chapter 7

Thanks to the beta reader DeyoChan to make my fanfic better.

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It was very cold outside and you could see the clothbound board that covered that window. There were small water drops scurrying along the transparent glass. It was a rainy day and the sky was gray-blue painted with dark-gray clouds. The window was slightly open and a cold breeze passed between the white curtains of the hotel, where the Mages of Fairytail were spending the night.

The gentle breeze lifted the soft fabric of the curtains, which were fixed on the window frame. In Lucy's room, the celestial Mage began to stretch her limbs when she started to wake up. She felt the cold and the relaxing tone of the drops hitting the crystal of the window, as soon as she sat on top of the soft sheets of her bed in the hotel.

'What a nice day.' Lucy thought, yawning and she rubbed her eyes still asleep.

Lucy liked those kinds of days, because the sweet tone of the drops transmitted to her peace and serenity.

She let the fresh air of the morning enter into her lungs and she satisfied sigh. Then she noticed that she was covered with a furry coat that somehow seems familiar to her. It was a large coat that smells of pine trees, rain and storm. She was sure that such coat was not hers, of course. It was too enormous to be it.

"Where I´ve seen this coat before? And why I am not under my bed sheets? I was so tired that I have probably fallen asleep on top of my bed without thinking to covers me up..." Lucy realized.

She looked at the room, because she was not capable of doing so at night due to her fatigue. It was a simple rustic, hotel and there was even a stone fireplace built with carefully cutting stones. It was very beautiful and nice.

Lucy just loved it.

She smiled to herself and devoured with her eyes the beautiful sight of where she was.

'Now I have to take a shower, seriously.' Lucy complained. 'And then I am going to go with Laxus for breakfast. Oh...right.' Lucy said when she realized something.

"I know now why this fur coat seemed so familiar to me; He wore it two days ago. But, why is it Laxus so sweet to me sometimes; what is wrong with him? I don't understand his bipolarity...Could it be…Maybe Laxus is trying to hide something from me?" She said aloud.

'Yesterday I thought he was really different deep inside him and that his arrogance and cursed behavior was only a facade. I'm going to figure out what is going on after having a lovely and deserved shower.'

Lucy sighed and slipped below the coat of Laxus and came out of the bed. Then carefully, she folds the jacket and put it above the bedside table. Later, she looked down and saw she still dressed in the same clothes she had used to walk to Shirotsume and they were not very clean, of course.

"For god sake! I LOOK HORRIBLE." Lucy whimpered.

The celestial Mage opened her luggage to take some warm and clean clothes. Suddenly something fell to the floor. She turned her head to the object that had fallen, to find out what have hit the floor of the room, and she found out that it was the letters that she used to write for her deceased mother. Lucy glared at them with a sad smile.

'Mother... I always do and will remember your laughter and your beautiful stories of the stars of our beloved heaven. You were always wise to tell me the right things at bad times to cheer me up...Lucy sighed with sadness when she thought of her childhood.

The letters she wrote to her mother helped her to cope with such a tough loss, although she knew that her mother had died a long time ago.

'After the shower, I will write to you ... it has been impossible for me to have time to do so after all what I have gone through these hard days.' Lucy thought. Lucy made her way towards the bathroom of the hotel room and felt bowled over by the impressive view that was in front of her.

The bathroom was decorated with carved stones and the bathtub was also made of stones and was beautifully decorated. Also, there were areas of the whirlpool; she had nothing more to be desired. She welcomed the sight with joy.

"Woo! I am going to spend all day here!" she smiled delighted. Her smile faded away when she thought about her trip to the mountains. "Holy heaven ... I have to walk in such weather!" Lucy complained.

Lucy looked at Horologium and saw that it was 7:00 a.m. 'Well, I have enough time until 9:00 a.m.' Lucy thought that at that time Laxus would be already awake to buy some things to cross the great mountains. She turned on the tap for the hot water and waited the huge stone bathtub be completely filled.

'I wonder how much it must have cost to Laxus to rent these rooms... he really has good taste for luxuries.' the blonde thought to herself.

Lucy came into the bathtub sighed when the heat of the water began to relieve her sore body. She was not used to walk long distances. At least not two whole days, but taking into account that Laxus dragged her the first day by placing her over his shoulders; the celestial Mage thought she needed something more than a lot of training.

'We are going to see what is going to happen... I hope that these wolves' slayer does not exist and that the nightmare I had was only a joke or an illusion of mine.' Lucy thought with concern.

She began to wash herself with the shampoo of strawberry and with the shower gel of vanilla. Then, she clarified her hair with the hot water. After drying her head with a towel, she came out of the tub and wrapped her body with another towel on the nice bathroom.

She took a look in the mirror, which was at the end of the toilet, and began to comb her beautiful blond hair. She didn't want to call Cancer or Virgo for ordinary things or help, to book her magic for emergencies, because if the harshest mission which awaited them.

'You never know what can happen in a mission as dangerous as this.' She nodded to herself. When the celestial Mage term to treat to be presentable, she left the bathroom.

Still wrapped in a towel and the bathroom still full of water vapor, Lucy sat on the end of the bed and she began looking at her luggage, which was next to his bed, for paper and pen to write the letter to her mother.

Dear Mother Layla Heartfilia…

It has been a while since I wrote you. I lot of things happened since then... I've been busy, and because of that I have not had the time for you or to write new chapters for my novel called Fairytail. In the first place, I have to tell you that Master Makarov has sent me on a three month mission with an arrogant and egocentric SS-Class Mage called Laxus Dreyar. Secondly, I've been through lots of difficult situations, in part because of the jerk that I have as a companion. The first day of the mission, he didn´t stop to let me clear that I was nothing more than a weak Mage that someday she would be thrown out of Fairytail when he became master of the guild. People say that he is the grandson of Makarov, but I don't see the resemblance. Perhaps is due to the misconduct of that stupid, cause he is such a filthy pervert. Besides, he is devilishly sexy and handsome, what a problem. His grandfather, on the other hand, cares for us as if we were his own children with such a lot of love, something that Laxus I doubt he will do in his entire life. During the first day, at the city of Oshibana he also made me feel useless and I had enough, I burst. He also said that I was nothing more than a spoiled girl who fled her own home because she did not want to get married. Maybe it seems to be a childish discussion ... but you don't know what it is to feel how your painful past is thrown in your face as if it was my own fault that my father had treated me so cruelly. For this reason, I left in a park and where I was attacked by some men in a bar, where Laxus and I had eaten or at least the SS-Class Mage did. I thought that I wouldn't survive there ... but somehow Laxus rescued me. Then, he took out his furry coat and put it on me, because my clothes was ripped off and he let me take it until I could change my clothes. Sometimes I do not understand the SS-Class. It may be an idiot or a good guy. Well ... be a good person is not one of the best qualities of this perverted and vulgar idiot. He only agreed to rent a magical car to go to Shirotsume only if I strip for him (he is that damn pervert!) Therefore, I kicked in the crotch and ran to the woods of the nearest forest...hehe. After my walk, he succeeded to catch me and he dragged me towards Shirotsume on his shoulders as if I would be nothing more than a porcelain doll.

We camped for the night on the skirts of the first mountains, and the next day, we continued our trip. The bad thing is that during the night I had a strange dream about a Lycanthrope. It was a huge black wolf and I think that I will not forget that horrific image for a long time. I don't know what that means and if it was not only a simple dream. Well, yesterday I decided to consult about that weird dream with Crux to get some information. He told me that perhaps these creatures were related to the Wolves slayers, human that could turn into wolves like as the dragon slayers can turn into parts of a dragon. It is scary, don't you think? I had to share a tent with the pervert blond Mage when we camped during the night at the forest. The very scoundrel pervert Mage hugged me while I was sleeping and who knows if he hadn't done something more than to hug me. He has been playing with me as if I was a toy, HIS toy! I don't know what to do with him. Also, yesterday he stole my first kiss and seriously injured Virgo with his power in a fight. Then he had the guts to say to me that I used my spirits as if they were my shields. But how dare he!? I slapped him hard and run away. I walked to Shirotsume on my way. When I arrived at my destiny Laxus reached me and apologized to me. Then I saw something strange in his eyes. When he apologized, he mean it, he was honest. Perhaps his past was worse than what Master Makarov told me before going to the mission. I don't know. I'm now in a lovely hotel and today we will buy some things to cross the mountains toward our destination, Wass Forest. I am going to write to you when I can and if possibly as soon as I can.

Your beloved daughter: Lucy Heartfilia.

Lucy sighed when she finished writing her letter. 'And when I have more free time I am going to write more chapters of Levy McGarden. She had been so friendly to me, although she was one of the most injured members of the attack of Phantom Lord. I didn't know that I would find a girl as passionate about books as I am. When I come back, I'm going to spend more time with her or girly nights hehe.' Lucy thought with a mischievous smile.

Lucy put on her warm winter clothes and started to clean the room. Later, she came out of there with the intention of going to breakfast. She was about to go to call Laxus to go down to eat. Lucy saw the door of her teammate in front of hers when she closed the door behind her. She was about to hit the wood of the door with her fine knuckles to call for the SS-Class Mage, but she thought that perhaps he was still sleeping, because they it was not later than 8:30 am. But she wanted to give him his coat.

Lucy took courage and gave two steps to get to the door of Laxus. 'I'm going to call.' Lucy said to herself. When she put his right fist in front of the door he heard voices coming from inside.

Curious, she put her ear up to the wooden door.

"Laxus..." A female voice rang on the other side of the gate. "Damn give me more..." The woman started drumming as a whore. Lucy immediately removed her ear of the door, when she realized the situation. She began walking with stealthy steps, rather than ashamed, down to grab breakfast.

'Perv...' Lucy thought while she was walking. 'It is not that I have anything against if he has all the women he wanted. It is his affairs, not mines. Therefore, why am I so angry? Lucy thought angrily. 'Perhaps because I had hoped that what I had seen at night in his eyes was true, as if there was something between us.' She thought with irony.

When the celestial Mage arrived at the restaurant of the hotel, she meets a woman with long dark hair that appeared behind her. The woman looks at her with contempt. Lucy ignored the arrogant woman, and requested strawberry pancakes at the barman for breakfast and a strawberry smoothie with milk. The arrogant woman cannot tolerate that Lucy had ignored her and approached the celestial Mage with an air of superiority.

"What is your problem, woman?" The raven-haired woman said with a venom voice. Lucy, who was in front of the counter of the bar, looked at the magnificent and sexy busty women.

"Excuse me?" Lucy asked with an authoritarian tone of voice.

"Don't talk to me like you're better than me, whore. I really don't understand what he has seen in you." The raven-haired woman said.

"What are you talking about? And don't talk to me as if I you know me. I haven't done anything to you." Lucy grabbed Taurus' key for her own safety.

"You've done one thing that bothers me. With only born into this world, that's more than enough to..." The woman started.

"Begone, bitch." Laxus said when he arrived at the bar for breakfast. The brunette woman looked at the blonde Mage with eyes wide open and disappeared through the door angry and frustrated.

When Lucy was found with Laxus she evaded his eyes still very embarrassed by what had happened that morning. Laxus lifted an eyebrow because he didn't understand the strange behavior of her mission partner. Lucy took her breakfast and went to a table that was very far away from the lightning mage.

'What is going on with that cursed woman?' Laxus thought a little confused. 'I have already apologized to Blondie damn it! Why is she avoiding me?' Laxus thought notoriously angrily.

'I want to be alone. Why does that dark-haired woman told me that?' Lucy thought still confused. 'I do not need that idiot to help me, I could've succeeded with that situation by myself and He could have had more time to have sex with the woman I heard on the other side of the door.' Lucy thought pissed. 'I can take care of myself, damn It.' She thought while bitimg her strawberry pancake and took a sip of her smoothie. It is not that she was that hungry after what had happened in the early morning.

Laxus took a chair in front of her, when she was still eating. Lucy ignored him and drank more of her smoothie. Laxus was angered by the blonde, but tried to keep himself calm. "Why do you always eat strawberries and milk?" Laxus asked suddenly.

Lucy's eyes widened when she was drinking her smoothie. 'MILK?' Lucy thought horrified, because she was still thinking about Laxus having sex with a woman during the night.

The smoothie slipped between the hands of the celestial Mage and crashed to the floor of the restaurant. "Hey, Blondie! Look at what you are doing!" Laxus said aloud.

"Uhm..." Lucy said and looked at the broken glass of the smoothie that was lying on the ground. "I am sorry." She apologizes and gestured to clean that disaster when she was stopped by an arm.

"Miss, let me clean this for you." The waiter said and pick up one piece of the broken glass.

"I'm sorry, sir, I don't know what had happened to me ..." Lucy bowed embarrassed to the waiter.

"It's Ok. Finish eating your pancakes and don't worry about your drink." The waiter said and ended to clean up the mess on the floor of the restaurant.

Some clients looked at the blonde woman for what had happened.

Lucy started toying with her fingers rather sheepishly and looked at her still full dish of food.

"Alright." Laxus said and put one of his muscular arms on the table when the waiter had gone. "Can you tell me what the fuck is going on with you?" He said annoyed.

"It's…Nothing." Lucy answered.

"Oh yeah, I can tell." Laxus said ironically.

"Like you care. And who was that woman?" Lucy said rudely. She wanted to be alone and he was taking her out her mind.

"The raven-haired woman? With a woman I have only spent a night. What? Are you jealous?" He smirked cocky.

"Jealous? Of you? Don't make me laugh. Seriously, I don't know what she had seen in you." Lucy said while eating.

Laxus's smile faded away and he looked at the blonde woman with a wrinkled brow.

'Blondie... you'd better take back what you just said or I think that your beautiful butt will eventually be hurt by sparks. I do not care if you're a woman.' Laxus thought gritting his teeth.

Lucy looked the deranged Laxus, "Look Laxus today I am not in a good mood, so before I regret having to say something I didn't want you better go and leave me alone with my own affairs." She said rather to justify her rude behavior. 'He is a damned perv!'

Laxus got up from his chair to go and grab his breakfast, but he was stopped by the voice of Blondie.

"I wanted to go down to breakfast with you to plan how will cross the mountains." Lucy said suddenly. Laxus smirked when he looks down at the beautiful blonde woman.

"Oh, so it's only that for what you are so angry? Why didn't you knock at my door? You could've joined me." He laughed scornfully with arrogance.

"W-waaaait a minute!" Lucy yelled, "I'd rather die before join with in whatever you were doing, perv!" Laxus shrugged his shoulders and walked to the table to order breakfast (still with a pervert smile on his lips).

'This woman is seriously a pain in the neck. She had to be in front of my door when I was busy.'

'Cursed woman.' The SS-Class Mage thought angrily. 'But I think she is going to fall for me sooner than I expected´. He smirks, 'Shit, blondie is better than those entire women with whom I have had a night stand. This son of a bitch raven-haired woman was that, a slut with whom I have had a night stand.'

Laxus ordered three plates with eggs and bacon, and a beer. The same waiter that had cleaned Blondie's disaster prepared the food for Laxus.

"Here you have it, sir." The waiter said when he had finished preparing the breakfast for Laxus.

The electric Magician took his breakfast without a "thank you" and put on another table far away from the celestial grumpy mage. 'He can eat as much as Natsu.' The celestial mage realized. 'Maybe he has to eat a lot, because his training exercises are very hard, but there is also the coincidence with motion sickness´.

"An interesting couple. They are very different. I wonder what their relationship was.' The waiter thought.

Laxus was eating his food when he realized something that pulled him out of his boxes. 'Who is this woman to tell me what I have to do? Am I becoming a softy man? As if something like that is going to happen! I am the Almighty Laxus Dreyar not the simple grandson of Makarov.' Laxus thought with anger. Laxus rose violently when he finished his breakfast.

The table almost broke with the strength of his movement. Lucy, who was two tables away from the blonde Mage, looked at him with a strange look.

'What is it with him?' Lucy thought. 'He is like a child sometimes.' Laxus path toward Lucy and she swallow saliva uneasy.

"We are going. Now." Laxus said with rudeness.

'What? I thought that now would be a different person, he had already apologized to me, even though in his own way. But I was really wrong.' The celestial mage thought with sarcasm.

"Ok." Lucy replies, making a gesture to pay for her breakfast, but a strong arm grabbed her by the waist and pulled her out of the hotel.

"What the fuck?! ¡Laxus!" Lucy shouted when she saw who was who grabbed her with brutal force. "Let me walk for myself once!"

"I already paid for your breakfast is not necessary to make such a scene, Blondie. But you owe me one." Laxus said without importance.

"I didn't ask you to pay the food for me. So I don't owe you anything." Lucy said.

"Yes. A luxury hotel, your favorite food ..." Laxus began saying.

"If you've done all that only to throw it on my face it's mean nothing. I have run away long time ago from luxuries for many reasons." Lucy said. Laxus stared at the girl who wanted to get rid of the grab.

He wonders, what were the reasons she had run away from home, but he gave it no importance and ignored it.

"Bad girl" Laxus said. Laxus still dragged the pouting Lucy, now by the arm, to a warehouse where they could buy the supplies they needed. "We have to buy the supplies to cross the mountain if you didn't remember, Blondie." He said reluctantly to the celestial Mage.

"Yeah, yeah. So are you telling me that you remembered that, when you fucked that bitch?" She angrily replied.

'What the fuck?' Laxus thought.

Laxus grabbed Lucy by her wrists and pinned her against the wall of the store. The SS-class Mage was really angry. The celestial mage when she looked at him in the green-blue stormy eyes a wave of panic swept across her body making it tremble of pure fear. Laxus was scary; she trembled in front of the intimidating presence of the blond magician, who was immobilizing her with the strength of his body.

'This is not the grandson of Makarov. It is a complete madman.' Lucy thought terrified. 'I also think that I would prefer to be devoured by that wolf than to deal with his power again.' Laxus put an arm on the wall and put his face closes to the blonde's woman.

"Listen to me blondie. Stop messing with me and asking for where you don't belong or this mission with me is going to become a hell for you, do you understand?" Laxus said with an uncontrolled anger and tightening with force the blonde girl against the wall. "And what do you care who I have spent the night with if you're not even interested in me?" He almost cries the last part. Lucy's breathing became heavier and more beads of sweat began to slip off her forehead and neck when she felt the breath of Laxus close to her face. She felt the air around her was increasingly suffocating and more when she was dam against the wall with the body of Laxus very close to hers.

The celestial Mage met some courage and after calm her fears, "Yes, these are not my affairs. I don't say that you can't do what you want with your own life, but then I have also the same right. Since we started the mission you have treated me like I were your dog that I had to follow you wherever you go, but I also have a vocation and discretion. If we are companions in this mission, although I would rather prefer to do it with another person, we must act together."

Laxus calmed down a little and loosened the grip. "I have never said that you couldn't do what you wanted." Laxus said more calmly.

"Let me remind you, when I wanted to rent a car and couldn't only be done if I only strip for you, remember that?" Lucy said rolling her eyes.

"I think that it was already clear that I gave you an apology." Laxus said irritated.

"There is no point in apologize if one return to make the same mistakes. You're acting like an idiot." Lucy said outraged.

"See? That is why I don't trust you." Laxus yanked the gaze of her brown eyes when she said that.

Once more he felt a strange sensation in his chest as if he was losing something very important. 'What the fuck is happening with me? Best we're going to the store.' Laxus thought. He's undone his grip from the girl and stepped backwards to let Blondie to reincorporate.

'Other bruises to my collection.' Thought Lucy with irony. 'Although these are not as bad as the deep bruise I have on the side of the ribs. Still, it was not was the cursed wound that the Dragon Slayer of Iron Gajeel gave me. It was at the battle of Phantom Lord.'

"Are you coming?" Asked Laxus impatiently, he didn't like to wait. "We have to buy the supplies." Laxus sighed and put a hand on his face. 'Will be a very long mission.'

"Wait." Said Lucy and put out the coat of Laxus of her luggage. "When have you taken it?" Laxus asked confused.

"Don't be that daft. Yesterday I overslept on the top of my sheets, I was really burst and you covered me up with your coat." Lucy said surprised.

"I don't know what you are talking about, woman." Laxus said more confused and then said. "Blondie, I have no idea what this means... but I have not covered you with my coat." Laxus said seriously.

"What do you mean?" Lucy said terrified.

Laxus looked thoughtfully and grabbed his coat. "Someone or something wants to prevent us to resolve the mission it seems." Laxus said analyzing the situation. "But don't worry, they will not come closer." Laxus said a little tensed.

"What? How that they will not get closer? If they have already been able to approach me!" Lucy shouted.

Laxus carefully looked at her and smiled with arrogance. "It seems that you know something more about that. Wouldn't it be that you just gatecrash in my room and you picked my coat?" He smiled flirtatiously.

"Of course not!" Lucy said immediately. Lucy's skin turned into a pallid tone when she thought about the information she obtained yesterday from Crux.

"Was I right?" Laxus smiled when he saw Blondie's pallid face.

"When I stopped that time by the way I wanted to check one thing with one of my keys..." Laxus realized the discomfort of the celestial blonde Mage and turned into a serious person, even though he liked to feel superior to this woman and feel her fear.

"And what did you want to do with that key? " Laxus asked.

"Obtain information." She simply answered.

"If you're going to explain all of this by parts better leave it. Just answer me what is happening here and that's it." Laxus said tired.

'Who would have thought that that girl have so many secrets. It can you also be because I don't know her too much.' Laxus thought pensively.

"At the camp I… I had a strange dream during the night." Waiting that said Laxus paid even more attention.

'That was not a simple dream.' Laxus nodded to himself. "Let me ask you something. Did you dream about a black terrific wolf?" Laxus asks, but he already knew the answer.

"Wait a minute. How do you know it?" Lucy asked with surprise.

'That girl has more facets than pages have a book of encyclopedia.' Laxus thought. 'I wonder what will be the next facet of her face.'

"I had a dream similar to yours, that's the reason."

"And what did you found?" Lucy asked with hope that he had found a solution. After all, he was an SS-Class Mage and she was still a newbie.

"What did I find? And what I have to know? For some reason; that wolf wanted your rare magic, that is the only thing I figure out. But it seems that you know something more. You're clever. I really don't understand why you're with such a destructive team of yours. And they also have no sense of privacy. I've heard that they invade into your apartment. However, that is going to happen again if you don't tell them not to do it. You hate unleashing yourself below them."

"They are my friends. And I don't tell them that for many reasons. First, because unlike me they hadn't had a family like I had and their past had been very hard, too. And second, because they are my family and I will protect them always." She answered sulkily.

"Well." Laxus got into another topic, "What had your spirit said to you?"

"Not much, the truth. But ..." Lucy started saying. Laxus lifted a brow, waiting for a response and with his arms crossed in front of his chest. "You know how the magic works to the Dragon Slayers, do you?" She asks. "Your body turned into parts of a dragon to use that magic."

'I know much more than what you think, chikie.' The SS-Class mage thought. Laxus nodded.

"Therefore, there may also be human that can become wolves to fight. Wolves are known as Wolves Slayers, much more powerful than werewolves, which are only mythical creatures." Lucy said with a sigh.

"Are you telling me that they have the same level as a dragon slayer?" Laxus asked shocked although he didn't show it.

"The problem is that we don't have much information about them and we didn't know if they even exist. Although I know that something is happening in this mission."

"Then we will go with more caution. It's the only thing we can do for now." He said.

'Now I see him like a truly SS-Class Mage.' Lucy thought.

Laxus started to walk to the store, but was stopped by the words of the blonde woman.

"Laxus, thank you." Lucy mumbles. Laxus turned to observe the celestial Mage it as if she was something strange.

"For what?" Laxus lifted an eyebrow when he looked at her. "For listening." Lucy said with a broad smile.

"Tsk." Laxus turned the face to evade Blondie's gaze.

The girl had succeeded to make a flushed Dreyar Laxus.

'Damn young hormones. It seems so sexy to me when she smiles like that. How I wish I could fuck her right now if we didn't have to buy the supplies.' Laxus thought. 'I hope I don't have to wait too long for that.' He thought with a pervert smile.

The two Mages came into the store for supplies to cross the mountain.

"Good morning. What can I do for you?" An old man sat behind a desk.

"Good morning." Lucy greeted him with a warm smile.

Before Lucy could ask the old man the things that needed she was stopped by a baritone voice. "We need safety ropes for climbing, lanterns, mountain bag, cloaks, utensils to climb the highest mountains and other things." Laxus said.

"You seem to need a lot of material. Are you going to cross the mountains on July?" The older man asked with a strange look.

"Yeah, why?" Laxus asks, confused.

"Because is Vulcans' mating season. It is very dangerous for your partner to go there." The old man said.

'Damn!' Laxus thought. "She is going to be fine. I am strong enough to take care of them." The SS-Class mage said in his ego.

"You seem to be powerful people. I can see that you are magicians, but there is something that you have to know."

"And what is it, sir?" The celestial mage said.

"You cannot use spells or magic. It can create avalanches and mountain landslides, so better go with care." He warned both magicians.

"But, how can we evade the Vulcans?" Lucy said uneasily.

"Next month will be more secure for you." The guy adds.

'We only have two days to meet with the mayor, at Wass Forest, to do our mission. We cannot wait for a month.' Lucy thought.

"Not everything has to do with magic, chickie." Laxus said while touching his muscular biceps with a wide smile. But, however, he was also thinking about how they could do it without magic. 'Nothing that I can't do.' Laxus thought sure of himself.

Lucy rolls her eyes at the cocky lightning Mage. In addition, she smears by the nickname.

'I am a woman not a chickie.' Lucy thought frustrated.

The old man put all the things they requested in a large bag, put it on the table.

"All this is going to cost 500,000 jewels. Normally would cost 700, 000 or more jewels, but because you are Mages I'll make you a discount. If you are going to cross these mountains, it should be an important mission." The old man said.

"Thank you, sir." Lucy said. She knew that Laxus wasn't going to say 'thank you' so she also spoke for him.'

Laxus and Lucy took the bag and they came out of the store. After, they went to a supermarket to buy enough food for two or three days.

"Laxus?"

"Uh?" Laxus grunted turning his head backwards, to observe the beautiful blonde celestial Mage that was following him, with a pervert smile.

"Don't look at me that way." Lucy sighs bored, "I can call Virgo to load the bags and we don't have to carry it all the way." She proposed.

"We can't use magic, so we have to carry everything by ourselves. And you're going to take your part, grab that? Maybe you are a woman, but not soft on no one."

"I already know that you're a total gentleman." Lucy said the last part with sarcasm.

"You know me well, then." Laxus said with amusement, "Now you have to learn about not relying on other people or from the help of your precious spirits." Lucy looked at him with other eyes.

"Why do you want to make myself stronger?" she asked.

"If you do not stand up for yourself, someone has to do so."

"I don't need someone to help me."

"Without a train you won't go far." Laxus said irritated. 'In addition, I like stronger woman. If now she is that good I can't imagine how will be after this mission.' Laxus thought drooling.

'Crossing the mountains can't be that bad, can be?' Lucy thought. But she would have liked that the response was negative.

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TBC