The train arrived at Magnolia Station and of course everyone waited until Makarov was off so he made sure everyone was off – because the last time there was a rush of the students leaving – they left Natsu on the train and – it just wasn't a pretty sight. They had to head to the next station before the Train arrived so someone could get Natsu and get him off the train before he was stuck again.
Lucy and Levy walked off together as they walked to the buses that would take them back to Fairy Tail. There was still something that was bothering Lucy – why was Master Makarov still so nice to her even though they just met. He was really nice, and she couldn't believe that she was going to have a new family. Levy was telling her all sorts of things about how long some guild members have been in Fairy Tail and how some came to Fairy Tail to just be part of a family because they felt left out of the world.
They finally arrived at the guild hall and Lucy was shocked to see how big it really was. Levy smiled at Lucy's reaction.
"Hey, this is your new home!" Levy smiled at her new friend.
"Yeah – I just didn't realize how big it was." Lucy pointed out.
"Oh, trust me, it's huge." Levy nudged her.
Next door to the guild was the school, which was the standard size of a three-story school. The Guildhall and the school of course, weren't connected, they were their own building. Everyone exited off the bus and headed into the guildhall towards the dorms that were located on floors three, four and five. The reason for the fifth floor – was strictly for the dragon slayers, as they needed their own rooms for the fact that once the Dragon slayers reach the age of mating seasons they need to build their "nest" of some sorts, so they can't share a room because their would be a lot of fights.
Lucy watched as Natsu, Gajeel and Laxus headed up to the top floor. Lucy looked at Levy, "Why are they heading up to the fifth floor?"
Lisanna was the one to answer the question, "They are all Dragon slayers, and they need their own rooms – no roommates because when they turn of age, they go into mating season and the dragon takes over."
"How do you know?" Lucy asked.
This time it was Mira who stepped forward to answer the question, "Because last year it happened to Laxus, and I became his mate." Mira moved her arm so that Lucy could see a lightning bolt on her arm. "It's Laxus mark. Each dragon slayer has one." She smiled. "With being his mate, I would be up in his room, once the dragon claims someone, the dragon is more tamed with the scent of the mate…" She smiles.
"Oh wow," Lucy looked at the mark. "Did it hurt?" She raised and eyebrow.
"Not really." Mira said. "Maybe one day, you'll find out, cause usually the dragon is attracted to someone with powerful magic." Mira smiled.
"Lu! Come on, let me show you to our room!" Levy smiled.
The two headed up to floor three – Girl's only dorm. The last room – one that read Levy's room on the whiteboard. Soon enough, Levy opened the door and grabbed a pink marker and gave it to Lucy. Lucy smiled and grabbed the marker and writing her own name – so the sign read, Levy and Lucy's Room. Levy opened the door wider – and Lucy walked in and was in shock at the room. There was a window – in the center of the room, that actually lead to the balcony. There were two beds – Levy's bed was a simple white and grey set, while the other bed was naked.
On Lucy's side, there was a bookshelf, that mimicked the one that Levy had. Plus, a desk, where she would have set up for her school stuff and her writing. The closet was a decent size – there was apparently a reading nook on either side as well. Lucy wondered if the rooms were based on the magic the person had – or if this room was just created to be for book lovers.
"We should go shopping for new stuff for you." Levy stated as she looked at Lucy and her luggage.
"Oh, that won't be necessary. I actually have stuff in the Celestial World. Virgo kept it safe for me. Trust me, Virgo, Aries and Gemini would be happy to help set up." Lucy smiled.
"Maybe I should let you do that; I'll be in the main guild hall! Come down when you want to!" Levy left the room.
Lucy grabbed the three keys and called them forth. "Open the three gates! Virgo! Gemini! Aries!"
There were three poofs – and the spirits arrived, ready to serve.
"Princess!" Virgo smiled, "You called us?"
"Do you think you can set up this side of the room with my stuff. Gemini, you can transform into me," Lucy explained to her spirits.
"Sure, we would love to." Aries smiled.
With a poof Gemini was an exact copy of Lucy, "We can do it, why don't you go explore."
"Are you sure?" Lucy asked.
"Yes! Go Princess! Virgo smiled.
"Alright!" Lucy said as she was being pushed out of her room by Virgo.
Lucy walked down to the ground floor to see that everyone was eating and drinking. Natsu looked over and waved his hand to get attention.
"LUCE OVER HERE!" Natsu said over the crowd.
Lucy walked over to where Natsu was – sitting with him was Erza, Gajeel, Levy, Gray and Juvia. Levy raised her eyebrow.
"Did you unpack that fast?" Levy asked.
"No, sadly my spirits kicked me out of the room – mostly Virgo." Lucy sighed as she shook her head.
"Lucy! There you are! Master told me to give you the guild mark!" Mira smiled as she came over with the stamp. "Where do you want it and what color?"
Lucy held out her right hand, "Here and in Pink." She didn't need to think about it – she dreamed about joining this guild. This was her home. She was happy to know that they were accepting her. They were a bunch of weirdos – but – they were now her family.
"Done." Mira smiled
"Thanks Mira!" Lucy looked at her hand, and staring back was the mark.
Lucy could feel her magic drain – a bit faster as she had three gates opened, but of course, with them coming and going, it was a slow drain on her magic. They were talking about something – but as they had classes tomorrow, Lucy wondered if she would be able to catch up with the workload, sure it was October 1st, meaning she had a month of missing schoolwork that she had to catch up on. She felt Virgo and Aries disappear back to the spirit world, and next thing she knows Gemini – still looking like her – walked over to their Princess. They all called her that sometimes as that's what Virgo calls her.
"Lucy!" Gemini said. "Come! Let's go see your room!"
"Um…Lucy…" Erza raised her eyebrow.
Lucy looked at Gemini and then at Erza, "Oh, it's just Gemini, they can copy anyone who has either the same magic as me or is weaker." She felt Gemini tug on her shirt. "Alright, Levy, you want to see too?"
"Hell yeah!" Levy stood up as the two – well three if you want to include Gemini – headed up the stairs.
Natsu watched them head up to the stairs. "I want to see too." Natsu got up, and then Erza yanked him back into his seat. "Erza!" Natsu pouted.
"You are not allowed." Erza sipped on her iced tea.
Natsu sighed. "Yeah Yeah." Natsu muttered.
With Levy, Lucy and Gemini, the door was opened, and the two girls were loving the room. Gemini poofed back to Gemi and Mini. Lucy's side of the room was amazing. Everything she packed – was right here in this room. Of course, Lucy was shocked on how everything was able to fit. Levy looked at some of the books that Lucy had on the bookshelf. Some of them old, and some of them that Levy knew. There was one whole shelf dedicated to Celestial Magic, of course, those books are from the Celestial World.
"Wow…" Levy looked at Lucy's side. "You spirits did a great job."
"Everything was owned by Miss Lucy!" Gemi said.
"We just put everything in the room; the Celestial books are from our world! Crux had them in his own library and said you can have them!" Mini said.
"Thanks, you guys, please go back to the Celestial World so you can heal up and get back to full strength." Lucy nodded her head to Gemi and Mini. Lucy took her time to look at everything, the books – one was a journal of the Heartfilia women. "What's this…" Lucy muttered and took the book off the shelf.
"What is it?" Levy asked as Lucy pulled out a journal type book.
"I don't know." Lucy opened the book – the one name that was there – Anna Heart-. Lucy dropped the book and her heart started to pound in her chest.
Levy picked it up and looked at Lucy, "Didn't you say Anna was a name of that relative you met?"
"Yeah, but look at the date, it's almost 400 years ago that this book was written!"
"That's impossible…"
"Unless…magic?"
"Magic?"
"There has to be a way that Anna came here, and those lights."
Levy flipped the next page over and started reading it out loud. "The Eclipse gate is finished. I'll be going through with the five…NO WAY!" Levy shouted.
"WHAT?" Lucy asked.
"Five Dragon Slayers…"
"Those lights…"
"Had to be dragon slayers…but how, Natsu and Gajeel never said anything about other dragon slayers…they talk about…their dragon parents who taught them."
"Levy! It's Natsu and Gajeel and three other Dragon Slayers. They are from the past…400 years ago…damn they are old."
"Well to them they aren't, because it says they were sent here when they were five." Levy frowned. "That's why Natsu talked a lot about his father – Igneel. To them, they didn't realize they traveled."
"We can't let them know." Lucy whispered.
"I agree…" Levy nodded.
The two girls decided to hide the book in the Celestial world – as it was the one place that no one would be able see the truth about Natsu and Gajeel and who ever the other Dragon Slayers were. Lucy was scared to be having a secret already – she barley knew anyone here and she didn't want to deal with the fact that she was keeping something. Levy seemed a bit nervous too as she has a crush on Gajeel.
"I don't want to keep it – but what if they don't know the truth, they would think we were crazy…" Lucy sighed as she pulled out a silver key, "Open! Gate of the Southern Cross! Crux!"
"What can I do for you, Miss Lucy?" Crux asked.
"Grandpa Crux, I was wondering you could – hide this journal in the Celestial World, in a pile of your books." Lucy begged.
"Can I ask why?" Crux seemed shocked – Lucy never asked this question before. She usually required information on something, but here, she usually ask him to take something back to the Celestial World.
"It…It's about the Eclipse Gate, it's from Anna." Lucy muttered.
"The 400-year plan!" Crux was shocked to learn that Anna had a journal about the plan.
"Is that's what it's called?" Levy asked.
"Yes. It was name that because the Eclipse Gate served as a pathway to any point in time. The 400-year plan was known to bring five dragon slayers from the past into the future, to a few years ago, because our time would serve better for their magic due to the Ethernano in the world." Crux explained.
"Why would they need that?" Lucy asked.
"Sorry Miss Lucy, but I can not tell you that information." Crux admitted.
"Ugh!" Lucy whined.
"But I will take the book and keep it safe until you want to read it some more."
"Thank you."
Lucy handed the book over to Crux as he disappeared in a bright light. She looked over at Levy, wondering why the slayers had to come here – a point in time that there would be no dragon attacks.
"Let's just pretend that didn't happen." Lucy muttered.
"Agreed." Levy nodded.
There was a sudden knock at their door and both girls jumped at the sound, wondering who would be knocking at their door. Levy went over and opened it – there was Erza, Cana, Lisanna, Mirajane, Kianna, and Laki. They wanted to check out what Lucy did to her side of the room.
"Wow! Where did all of this come from?" Cana asked as she looked at Lucy's side.
"I packed some of the stuff in boxes and my Celestial Spirit Virgo said that she'll hold it in the Celestial world for me." Lucy half-lied to Cana.
"It's really cool. You and Levy are totally alike with the books!" Laki pointed out.
"Tha-thanks Laki." Lucy's cheeks turned pink.
"Hey, we're thinking of going out tonight! As a new member, you have to come with us to town!" Erza smiled.
"Why do I get a feeling I won't like it…" Lucy looked at Levy.
"Trust me! It's going to be fun!" Levy grabbed her hand. "Besides, it just us girls. No boys."
"Really?" Lucy questioned. "I guess it won't be too bad then."
The girls left the room, and headed back downstairs, where she saw Natsu waiting for, "Hey, Luce, can I talk to you?" He asked as he looked at her.
"Sure!" She smiles as she walked over to him.
The two of them walked outside so that they could have some privacy. Though, Natsu knew that the boys were going to try to listen to his conversation. It wasn't every day that Natsu would talk to someone who wasn't his friend. Lucy was new and of course, when she agreed to talk to him, there were a few raised eyebrows. Outside, Natsu took a deep breath and he pulled out a charm – that was on a necklace. It was the Fairy Tail symbol – in red. The same color has his own mark.
"What's this?" She asked.
"It's for you. Protection. It shows that no one is going to mess with you because you are under my protection – if anyone gives you a problem, just touch the necklace, and it will lead me to you. I know you could probably take care of yourself, but for now, you are our newest member, and some of the kids here like to pick on our guild, and I don't want that to happen. If you are also just feeling alone, and scared, you can touch the emblem, and I'll be there." Natsu explained as he looked at the necklace and then looked at her.
"T-thank you Natsu. That means a lot." She took the necklace and bit her lip. "Can you put it on?"
"Sure." He smiled as he took the necklace and put it around her neck and made sure that it was in view.
"I really do like it! It…It's actually my first gift – from a friend. I didn't have a lot growing up" Lucy admitted.
"Well, I'm happy you like it. How about we go back inside, there's going to be a storm tonight."
The two walked back in – and the first person to notice the necklace was – Gajeel.
"HOLY SHIT!" Gajeel shouted.
"What?" Gray asked.
"He gave the necklace to her,"
"Really?"
"Yah, Salamander apparently wants her under his protection when at school."
"Ho- never mind, pretty sure you heard that with your dragon hearing."
"Damn right."
Natsu looked at Gray and saw the smirk form on his lips. He was going to do it. The Bro's of Fairy Tail – that their club inside the guild. All males had a necklace formed with the Fairy Tail emblem in their color. It was to give to a lady – yes, a lady – to show that no one should mess with the girl, but anyone outside of Fairy Tail didn't know that. It was an inside thing between all the males – since the creation of Fairy Tail. It only happened when Fairy Tail had a lot of members though.
"So, she has your necklace~ you know what that means." Gray laughed.
"DON'T!" Natsu shouted.
"CODE 593!" Gray shouted.
"Really?!" Some of the males shouted, as they made their way to the fourth floor.
"I hate you." Natsu growled.
"Nah!" Gray stuck out his tongue.
Gajeel, Gray and Natsu were the last three up the stairs and Lucy tilted her head wondering what just happened.
"What just happened?" Lucy asked Erza.
"Well, I think it has something to do with the necklace." Levy admitted.
"Why?" Erza asked.
"Well, when Gajeel gave me the same one – but in black" She held up her bracelet. "I changed it into a bracelet. I'm not much of a necklace person. Natsu called the code on him."
"Hmmm." Lucy and Erza hummed.
"I think so too." Juvia said as she had her necklace in the dark blue – the same color as Gray.
"Natsu said it was like a protection thing." Lucy said. "Like if I'm getting picked on at the school, I would just touch it and it would lead him to me." She shrugged her shoulders.
"It's true. Some guy trapped me between the lockers – and I touched mine, next thing I know the guy is on the floor, and Gajeel had me behind his back. It happened so fast; I don't even know how to really explain it." Levy recalled the memory.
With the males in a lounge room, Freed sighed as this was the third time this year that they had the same meeting. Bickslow looked at Freed as there had to be something that could be done about these meetings being repeated. Why couldn't everyone just the out the necklace to a girl they like that way it can be over with!
"Alright, Gray, why did you call the necklace code – and who is it on?" Makarov asked.
"Natsu." Gray pointed to the Fire Wizard.
"What?" Laxus asked, shocked. "No, really, who?"
"NATSU!" Gray shouted. "Him and Lucy went outside to talk, and when they came, Gajeel spotted the necklace around Lucy's neck."
"Gajeel, is that right?" Freed asked.
"Yup, can't miss the red." Gajeel sighed.
"Natsu – you know that means, right?" Loke asked.
"Of course, I know what the fuck it means!" Natsu growled. He didn't want to be the Hot Seat.
"Then why did you do it?" Droy asked.
"Because, I don't want people to think that Lucy is fair game to make fun of her, because you know how hard it is to move from an isolated area to a populated school!" Natsu demanded.
"Isolated?" Bickslow asked.
Makarov spoke up about that fact, "Lucy was home schooled."
"So, the reason you gave her the necklace was so that she had someone there for her, if need be?" Freed questioned to make sure that everyone was on the same page.
"I'm pretty sure that's the reason. It's magic, and if she's ever lost, in trouble, or lonely, I told her touch it and I would be there." Natsu rolled his eyes.
"Most of our girls were young when they joined, Lucy is sixteen, she won't understand how people will act." Makarov nodded his head.
"Meeting adjourned?" Bickslow asked. "Unless someone has something, they want to add…"
The boys contuined to talk about something that was unimportant – mostly about the idea that the girls were going to take Lucy out in the town, and that the boys should find out where they were going and crashing it. Makarov was against that, because the girls would be fine, though he didn't say that the boys couldn't go out on the town. Downstairs the girls were gathered around the table, talking about what they were going to do tonight.
"We should drink!" Cana smirked. "I know a bar that will let us drink~"
"Cana…You drink here. Master allows it because you are home." Evergreen pointed out. "Besides, Master would rather like it if we were going to drink, to do it here."
"Really?" Lucy asked.
"Yeah." Mira sighed.
The girls talked about going to the Karaoke bar, because Erza could get them their private booth. So the girls agreed to the Karaoke, there was going to be good food – as Shine and Sing always had the best food. Lucy wondered why the place was called Shine and Sing. She sighed and then saw the boys coming back down and she looked over and spotted her pink-haired friend. The two locked eyes and she could feel her cheeks heating up and she looked away.
"SHE'S BLUSHING!" Cana shouted.
"CANA SHUT UP!" Lucy yelled at the girl who was already drinking at noon.
"Hey~ not my fault..." Cana sighed.
Lucy rested her head on the table as Levy patted her back. Praying no one really heard Cana scream that. It was going to be embarrassing. Gajeel, Jellal, Natsu and Gray walked over to where the girls were. Of course, Jellal could looked at Erza to see if she would explain, but when Erza looked at Jellal she shook her head, showing that she wouldn't tell him anything at all.
"So, Lucy, Gramps tells us that you are sixteen – you'll be a Sophomore, some of us are Juniors and Seniors." Gray noted.
"Ah, yeah. I suppose that's right." Lucy nodded. "I'm actually pretty smart for my age, so it's possible I could be in some Junior classes."
"That would be awesome!" Natsu blurted out.
"Uh…" Juvia looked at Natsu and then looked at Gray, then back at Lucy. "Anyways! I hope you'll be in some of our classes!" She smiles.
"Me too!" Levy smiled as she loved the idea of having Lucy in some of her classes. The two could talk and help each other with the homework.
"Master would have to stuff you into some classes, luckily it's not THAT late into the semester!" Erza smiled.
"I can't wait." Lucy laughs.
"A real school. Real friends. Would they care who I was? Everyone is bound to know about the Heartfilias'. The company owes the Railroads – and started dabbling into the idea of newer vehicles, as there are better ways to use for fuel – or something…" Lucy thought.
"Lucy, can I talk to you?" Master Makarov asked as he walked over to their table. "It's about your class schedule."
"Sure." Lucy got up and followed him to the second floor to get to his office. He opened the door and sat at his chair and looked at her. "What is it?"
"I need to know – I know you don't want to be known as a Heartfilia – yet – but I need a last name to use for school records." Makarov explained.
"Heart…There was a journal – and it was damaged from age, from my relative, Anna Heartfilia – Levy picked it up, and you could only make out Heart. The full name is Lucy Ashley Heart. That should work for school records, right?" Lucy was nervous – she didn't want people to know – she was disowned. They would question why an EX- Heiress would be here.
"I'll be the only one who knows who you are. I'll have a school ID and a Fairy Tail Guild ID made with the name requested." Makarov nodded.
"Thank you so much Master, I promise, I'll be…be a good addition."
"Child, you can call me Gramps, most of the guild does."
"Are – are you sure?"
"I raised most the kids you see down there – anyone who bears our guild mark, I raised. They all came at young ages."
"Thank you…"
"Now, you better go before you worry your friends – but – you said you are in contact with your brother, I'll need his number to talk to him. I have to see what classes I can place you in."
"Sure." Lucy handed over his number.
"You can go now. I'll have your schedule done soon."
Lucy got up and left his office and headed back down the stairs – where she saw a fight break out. She watched as it was Natsu VS Gray VS Gajeel. She sighed as she looked around the top floor – a band set? She grabbed the guitar – she knew how to play it, plus the violin. She wondered if…. She plugged the guitar into the amp and turned it up, as she smirked. She let out a cord, and everyone stopped.
"There! Now I have your attention." She turned off the amp and set the guitar down and walked over to the table she was sitting at. Of course, there were two people who were not very happy.
"Damn it Blondie. Why?"
"Yeah, Luce, that hurt!"
The Dragon Slayers. Of course.
"Not my fault. The guitar seemed like fun." Lucy smirked.
"Evil!" Gajeel laughed. "Love it!"
"So, how did it go with Gramps?" Natsu asked.
"Oh, um, he wanted to make sure that he had my full name, so he could get a School ID and A guild ID made. Then needed to contact my brother for something about school related information." Lucy waved it off.
"I see…" Natsu looked at her.
"She's really pretty. Why am I so drawn to her?" Natsu asked.
There was side conversation going on about tonight – it seemed like the only thing on Natsu's mind was Lucy and why she smelled like – Cherry Vanilla. It was a soothing scent. He didn't understand it, but soon he snapped out of his thoughts as he heard Gray talking about the Boy outing they were going to do. What master didn't know was that they were going to Crash were the girls were going. It was going to be fun. It was like the thing between the two genders. Whenever a new member joined – the other gender would track down where they were and crash the party. Erza already knew it was going to happened, it happened when Kianna joined last summer, and the boys followed them to the mall. This time, they were hitting a place where they would never dream of – Karaoke.
"Are you ready for tonight?" Erza asked Lucy.
"Yeah, sounds like it's going to be fun!" Lucy smiled.
It was a genuine smile. One that hasn't been seen on her face in years.
Within Makarov's office, he had found out that Lucy would be in Junior and Senior classes, while only be sixteen, she would technically be a Junior, even with the age – but he still had to put down her age, since her birthday was July 1st, so she just turned sixteen. He wondered if could place her in the Junior Class, or just have her in the Sophomore class. The struggle of not knowing what to do. Of course, there were some classes she couldn't take if marked as Sophomore. He bit the dust and placed her in the Junior class.
On the Screen:
Name: Heart, Lucy Ashley
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Grade: 11th, Junior
School ID: 8530-530-5395
Wizard Guild: Fairy Tail
Wizard Guild ID: 504-540-4535 -Celestial Wizard
Class Schedule:
1st Period: AP Chem
2nd Period: (Alpha Days) AP Chem Lab
2nd Period: (Beta Days) Study Hall
3rd Period: Mythology
4th Period: English
5th Period: AP World History and Government
6th Period: (Alpha days) Music – Chorus
6th Period: (Beta days) Music – Orchestra
7th Period: Lunch
8th Period: AP Statistics
9th Period: (Alpha Days) Study Hall
9th Period: (Beta Days) Gym – Guild Hall Gym, Magic Battle Class.
Makarov looked at her classes and smiled as she would like her classes. It was the ones that he could get her. So when it came to her senior year, she would be able to take half days – like most the junior class was doing. He printed out her class schedule and her two IDs with her name on it. He called Mira into his office, as she was the helper around the guild, and was the one was in charge of everyone – since Laxus was too busy.
"Yes Master?" Mira asked.
"Give these to Lucy." Makarov handed Mira over the items.
"Yes, of course Master." Mira smiled as she went to go find Lucy and saw her and Erza talked. "Lucy! Your school schedule is ready!"
"LET ME SEE!" Levy shouted snatching it from Mira. "We have, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th and everyone who is a mage in our guild is in the 9th class on Beta days."
Lucy took her schedule and looked at it, "what are Alpha and Beta days?"
"We have to alternate days so that it's not the same thing every day over and over again. So tomorrow, it's going to be an Beta day, you would have Study hall, instead of Chem Lab, and you have – orchestra instead of chorus, and we would have our gym class and not another class." Levy explained.
"Chem?" Natsu perked up. "What kind?"
"AP C-c-chem." Lucy looked Natsu.
"Awesome, we have that class together, and study hall after that, and Mythology, lunch, study hall again, and gym." Natsu raised his eyebrow. "Why two music classes?"
"Oh…Umm, I don't know." Lucy muttered.
"That's going to be a lot of work." Erza looked at her.
"Really?" Lucy was shocked, she already knew how to play the violin and was pretty good at it – "Master probably put me in the chorus class because I can sing." Lucy waved her hand.
"Well, there's always a Winter and Spring festival, where the music groups perform for the school. So you would have to switch from Orchestra to Chorus." Levy nodded her head.
"I can do it." Lucy smiled.
"You schedule looks more like one of the Juniors." Natsu peered at it – and at the top of her schedule – "You are Junior…"
"WHAT?" Their table shouted.
"That's – how smart are you that you skipped a whole grade of boring classes?" Gray looked at it.
"I guess my brother sent over the stuff I've done…" Lucy's face grew red from embarrassment.
"Alright, enough of that, us girls have to get ready for our night out." Erza smirked as she knew that the boys wouldn't figure it out – even if they did – it would be too late, since they weren't going to stay in once place this time.
The girls got up and left the main area and headed to their rooms. When Levy and Lucy entered their room, Lucy set her schedule down as she grabbed her wallet to place her school ID and her wizard ID in it. She smiled as she saw the photo – it was from the picnic. She looked at Levy.
"What should I wear?" Lucy asked.
"Hm, something comfortable – knowing Erza, we're not going to be at Shine and Sing the whole time," Levy hummed.
"Why?"
"The boys have a habit of following us and saying 'wow, didn't know you would be here!'" she tried her best to impersonate Gajeel. "We found out last summer when Kianna joined us – we were bowling, and Juvia and I bumped into Gajeel and Gray – and it wasn't the best. We found out that they've been following us since then. So Erza going to make sure that we don't stay long. We now know they use Laxus, Gajeel and Natsu as dogs to sniff us out."
"Oh wow." Lucy noted. She wondered if that would actually happen.
Tonight, was going to be fun. She didn't mind if the boys joined them, though it was girls' tradition. Lucy went with black shorts, and a pink tank top with a white sweater. The weather wasn't that cold, but it was still cold at night. She also opted for the white flip flops. Levy went with an orange dress. Lucy's blonde hair was pulled into a high ponytail, while Levy had her hair down. Part of Lucy was scared to be going out. She didn't know how to act. She was nervous – and she almost went to touch the necklace, but she didn't want Natsu to burst into the room.
The two went downstairs, and the boys were no where to be seen, but the rest of the girls were ready to leave. Mira shouted that they were leaving to the other adults were at the bar drinking. Kianna was the only one who wasn't going to be going – she was more of an adult at this point – according to Cana. The girls hit the town and Lucy smiled as they walked to the Sing and Shine, Erza getting them the private room – which was close to the exit.
"Cana why don't you go!" Lucy smiled.
"I guess~ Lisanna you gotta sing with me~" Cana smiled.
"Ugh, fine." Lisanna whined. It's not that Lisanna didn't know how to sing – it was just that songs that Cana picked were always in the rock genre and Lisanna wasn't that much into the genre. "Just no…hardcore rock."
"You are no fun!" Cana whined.
The rest of the time was flying by. After Cana and Lisanna were done – with a score of 401, which was apparently a fair score, next was Levy and she had a score of 390 – again which was fair. Mira on the other hand had a score of 500! It was almost time for Lucy to go – when Erza grabbed her hand.
"We better go now, they just arrived." Erza whispered.
"How do you know?" Levy asked.
"The girl at the front desk sent me a text." Erza hushed.
They opened the door and left out the back exit. Of course, their scents were all everywhere in the room. It would take them a while to find out where they went. That's why Erza had them all over the place, before talking to the lady at the desk. It made sense now.
"Where to next?" Mira asked.
"The Bar – NOT TO DRINK CANA!" Erza growled. "It's to throw off them off."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY AREN'T HERE!" Bickslow shouted. "THEY HAVE TO BE!"
"That isn't manly…" Elfman sighed.
"I'm sorry, they left after ten minutes, saying that one of the girls wasn't feeling well." The lady sighed. "Look, there's nothing I can do."
"Let me be the judge." Natsu said as he walked around and sniffed the air. Cherry Vanilla. "They just left. But not through the front door. They used the back door."
The rest of the boys bolted out on the streets. What they didn't know what that the backdoor – led through the back alley, they wouldn't be on the main street.
"Do you Dragon Slayers have anything?" Freed asked.
"We aren't dogs!" Gajeel growled. "Nothing. The back door doesn't lead out this way." Gajeel sniffed trying to figure out where they would be.
"Where would they go…" Loke wondered.
"The bar." Elfman said.
"How?" Everyone looked at him.
Then he pointed over to the girls trying to sneak in – and of course, you could spot, Erza's bright red hair, Levy and Juvia's blue hair. Natsu's eyes were looking for a certain blonde – and his eyes found here. The blonde hair was pulled into a pony tail and he was happy – why was he feeling this?
"We should go." Laxus smirked, knowing that he wanted his mate – Mira. "They'll be trapped by the time we get there."
"Ooo I like your evil Idea!" Freed smiled.
"What?" Natsu snapped out of his thoughts.
"We split up, on through the front, one through the side." Laxus sighed. "Let's go."
The group broke off. Lucy was having fun as the bar wasn't just drinking – it was dancing too. Of course, this bar was the only one that allowed minors in it, but they would ask for ages, and lucky Mira had already called ahead and set out the bracelets. Let's just say Cana was not too happy that she couldn't drink. She would just have to wait until they got back to guild. One group finally entered the club, and Erza looked – and saw that the it was only sum, so she didn't pay much attention until she saw Mira disappear.
"Mira?" Erza looked around, and then hands were around her.
"Now, Erza, my Scarlet, why would girls come here?" Jellal asked as he kissed her neck.
"JELLAL!" Erza shouted. "Shit, you guys split up!"
"Yup." Jellal smirked.
"I hate you guys, why do you do it?"
Of course, Levy and Lucy were in the bathroom when the boys busted in. Levy was about to leave when she heard the heavy footsteps of Gajeel come this way. She grabbed Lucy's hand as she pushed her into a stall keeping a hand over her mouth and her own mouth. There was no way that they were going to get caught. There was a window, but she didn't know if there would be anyone on the other side of that.
"What are you doing?" Lucy muttered.
"The boys found us." Levy whispered.
"So, we have to hide?" Lucy raised her eyebrow to look at her.
"I guess not." Levy sighed as the two exited the stall and walked out of the bathroom and Levy spotted Gajeel at the end of the hall way – as he was waiting for her. "I hate that they do this!" Levy growled.
"Yeah yea, now come dance with me." Gajeel grabbed her hand and took her to the dance floor.
Lucy walked out and saw the guild having fun. She looked around for someone, and sighed when she didn't see who she was looking for and walked outside, where she spotted Natsu across the street at a café. She walked over to him.
"Can I join you?" She asked.
He looked up – and smiled. "Sure. Did you not want to stay inside?"
"It was fun, but it was giving me a headache." Lucy frowned.
"Here, I kind of ordered what Levy usually does when we stop by." Natsu said as he passed her a cup of coffee.
"What is it?"
"A…White Chocolate Mocha, Iced."
Lucy took a sip of it and she blinked. "I never had something so good before!" She smiled at him.
"I work here after schools – I usually leave after 8th on Alpha days because of having a study hall. Makarov gave permission for me to just go to work instead, but usually after 9th I'm here as well." Natsu pointed up at the café.
"What days do you work?"
"Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays."
"Today is Sunday –"
"I asked for this day off."
"I should probably look for a job." Lucy muttered.
"Levy works next door at the book store, you could ask her if they are hiring. Our jobs usually know that we're wizards, so they always hold our jobs over the summer for when we take the Wizarding jobs, but sometimes we can balance both. I usually prefer to do the Wizards jobs! But making the coffees, and just being in this part of town is nice."
Lucy sipped her coffee again. She could see that Natsu was happy to have this job. She would have to see him here and place an order. Working at a book store – that seems nice. She was pretty sure that Levy enjoyed it a lot. The two of them were book worms.
"Do you want to head back to the guild?" Natsu asked – bringing her out of her thoughts.
"Sure."
Lucy and Natsu headed back the guild, leaving everyone else inside the bar. She asked Natsu to input his cell pone number so that they could text and what not. That way she wasn't relaying on just a necklace – if she wanted to contact him, she had his number. They traded numbers as they walked back. The weather decreased and she moved a bit closer to Natsu – as she could feel the heat coming off his body. Is this because he's a fire dragon slayer that he runs warm? One day – she would get to the bottom of that answer. Natsu stopped at her floor and looked at her smiling.
"Good night Luce!"
Lucy could feel her cheeks heat up. "Good night Natsu."
She watched as he kept climbing the stairs to the top floor. She wondered if she could see his room. Leve mentioned that the boys aren't allowed on the girls floor, but what about the Dragon slayers floor...She had to keep that in mind for a future day.