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Chapter 15: Training Strongly With Earth Magic! Lucy's Powerful Spells! Kotomi Gets Very Careful In The Coldness!
Lucy sat down at a table in Sabertooth's guildhall with Risa while she turned some pages in an orange book that she was reading, and Lucy started to smile happily from seeing a spell that was known as Aura Blast. She simply followed the book's instructions of stretching out her right hand while having her left hand tightly grip her right wrist, and Lucy aimed her attack towards an empty table. Lucy watched an orange aura of Earth Magic engulf her right hand, and it began to swirl around in a clockwise manner. The aura bounced off of Lucy's hand to hit the table, and her attack created a small explosion.
The other mages in the guild turned their attention to that table, and they all got to see that Lucy's attack left behind some black scorch marks with little clouds of smoke sizzling out of them. That spell didn't seem to be very powerful, so Lucy wondered if she could enhance it like how that had been possible with her first spell of Fire Magic. Lucy activated the Aura Blast spell again, before activating it again in that same hand, but the aura surprisingly seeped down into the palm of her hand. It didn't create an explosion or even cause any pain to Lucy's hand, and that made her start to look puzzled about the spell. However, that wouldn't be her only spell of Earth Magic that would be learned from the book.
Lucy's orange eyes looked at the adjacent page to see a spell that was known as Explosive Earth Tomb, and that spell required Lucy to stretch both of her arms forward. She quickly shot out two large brown rocks from her hands while an orange aura surrounded them, and Lucy softly clapped her hands. That made the large rocks break apart into smaller rocks, and they quickly created some large orange blasts near the entrance doors of the guildhall. The loud noise from the blasts made Sting hastily run out of the office with Lector flying beside him for a few seconds, and seeing the orange smoke made him wonder if someone just took down an intruder who was foolish enough to barge into Sabertooth.
He watched the smoke clear up to reveal that no one was there, and Sting soon saw the orange aura around Lucy's hands begin to disappear. He gave her a looked shocked for a few seconds, before seeing that she didn't really damage anything, and Sting perceived Lucy to be someone who could now use powerful spells without wasting much energy. He wished that he had gotten to see the spell, since he was busy listening to a certain shadow dragon slayer's message that was left for him this morning, and Sting was glad to give his own message to Lucy as he walked towards the table where she sat with Risa. Lector chose to watch Sting while having a confident smile on his face, and hearing from Risa yesterday evening about how Sting went on a date with Lucy made the red cat wonder if Sting would try to flirt with Lucy today.
Sting told Lucy with a calm smile on his face, "Good morning, Lucy. Your morning may soon be awesome, though."
Lucy asked him with a curious facial expression, "How will it be awesome, Sting?"
He explained to her while having confidence in his blue eyes, "According to one of the books on treasure that I found in Sabertooth's library, one of those elemental rings is in a far-off place known as Parmanie Town. In fact, I only heard about that place once before today."
Sting's words about Parmanie Town caused Risa to suddenly get up from the chair that was next to Lucy, and she walked towards the request board. Another day of checking out jobs was fine, but Risa didn't even give Sting a snarky remark about being too hasty or tell him that Lucy's magic was an awesome sight to see right now. Risa turned back to face Lucy, who gave her a concerned look, but Risa seemed like she didn't want to talk about Parmanie Town. In fact, recalling a certain memory involving the rain and her sunglasses made her not even want to think about it.
Risa decided to start thinking about which job that she and Lucy could handle today, and she slightly frowned as she looked at the flyers. Risa chose to ignore the job involving a priestess while she looked for something that didn't seem like a very difficult mission, and Risa decided to just choose the job of getting some cupcakes from Kogane Town's bakery that sold pastries. This job seemed to be an easy one while it came with the reward of ten-thousand jewels, and Risa also thought about how handling this easy mission quickly would give Lucy more time to train with her Earth Magic.
After all, Lucy would probably need to make her Earth Magic be strong for the next fight that came along. Risa unpinned the pink flyer from the request board for it to land in her left hand, and she closed her eyes as Parmanie Town came back into her mind. She quickly tried to suppress her thoughts about it, as she felt like that issue could be dealt with at a much later time, and Risa felt like she wasn't ready to deal with those memories right now. The way that she frowned about those memories and clenched her right fist tightly meant that there must've been something that she really disliked about Parmanie Town, but Risa wanted to keep it to herself while she also did not want to stress out Sting or Lucy with her experiences in that town.
"What's wrong, Risa?" Lucy asked the pink-haired girl with a concerned facial expression, as she got up from the chair to walk over to her.
Risa quickly replied in a calm manner while turning around to look at Lucy with her frown being turned into the softest smile that Risa could make right now, "Nothing, Lucy! This flyer just clashes with my outfit, that's all."
Lucy responded with a playful look of disbelief on her face, as she got close to Risa and grabbed the flyer, "Oh my gosh, Risa. You're now having the biggest fashion crisis in Fiore, and not color-coordinating your outfit with the flyer for your job is a real rookie mistake."
Lucy looked at Risa's clothes to see that she was wearing an orange kimono with a black sash around her waist while the kimono had dark orange flower petals on it, and the way how Risa slowly walked back to the table allowed Lucy to catch a glimpse of how Risa's ass moved in a somewhat sexual manner from how that kimono seemed to be a little tight. Lucy wouldn't question Risa's fashion choices, especially since she was the one who picked out her own clothes without ever taking any suggestions from the female cashiers, and Risa appeared to be wearing pink high-heeled shoes with it.
Her shoes were in the same shade of pink as the flyer, and Lucy's eyes started to look at it. She smiled nicely at how Risa picked out a job that was very easy, since that would give Lucy more time to go back to Kuchiba Town, and she would hopefully get to train in appropriate place with her Earth Magic. Lucy would not desecrate the Relic Ruins, since some powerful Earth Magic that wrecked the ruins could cause that sacred place to end up completely collapsing while no one would ever be able see the interior of the ruins in its ancient glory. Lucy wouldn't train in a glorious place such as the Bell Tower, either.
That left Lucy with the option of training in a place where nothing sacred would get damaged, and she walked back to the table while hoping that she could train very hard with the Earth Magic. Lucy hoped that her magic would allow her punches or kicks to break rocks with ease, as well as giving her the strength to harshly throw enemies who wanted to irritate her. Lucy smiled nicely at Sting while starting to feel confident about the idea of throwing Kotomi Takeuchi high into the air, and Lucy would love to see her crash back down into the ground. As her eyes looked straight at the red book, Lucy wondered if Kotomi was getting punched in the face by an enemy right now.
Meanwhile, in the forest near Seigan Town...
Kotomi comically punched the top of Natsu's head from seeing him eat one of the white Snowflake Candies, which was a type of candy that could be created after snowflakes that fell from the sky touched some puddles of water that were infused with Water Magic, and the intense amount of magical energy in some water puddles near the snow helped those snowflakes not fall apart while they solidified to end up being delicious candies that people could enjoy. Natsu had simply eaten one, and he liked how the candy was sweet while it tasted like the flavor of blue raspberry.
He watched Erza get ten of them out of a nearby puddle, and she put them in a dark blue picnic basket that was near her feet. Erza had purchased this basket in Seigan Town yesterday just because of how it seemed nice for storing her smallest assortments of tiny weapons, but it was quite useful for storing these candies. She currently had thirty of them in the basket, and only five more were needed for Team Natsu to complete their job of getting the sweet candies for a client who was apparently too busy to get the candies on their own.
As Erza's brown eyes spotted fifteen of the candies being close together in a small puddle, she smiled nicely at how the job was very easy. She picked up several of the candies with her right hand, before dropping them all into the basket, and Erza proceeded to pick up the basket with her right hand. She was currently wearing her Flame Empress Armor while being out here, since the winds that were blowing through Seigan Town had been very cold, and Erza smiled in a pleased manner from the armor made her body feel warm.
Erza walked back towards Seigan Town's entrance, and Gray started to follow her. He smiled in a confident manner at how the team would soon get their reward of ninety-thousand jewels, and Gray felt like the team did well. He turned around to see the girl who he assumed to be Lucy give him a friendly smile while she accidentally stuck one of her hands into the puddle, and the sight of her comically screaming from the extreme amount of coldness made Gray chuckle a bit. Natsu laughed, too, and he didn't think that the water would be at a frigid temperature in the snowy forest. He got to see his blonde-haired friend get her hand out of the puddle, before she decided to create a gold star-shaped projectile of Celestial Spirit Magic in the palm of her cold hand, and that spell was simply called Celestial Healing Star. The star simply shined brightly with thin gold beams coming off of it, and the gold aura engulfed Kotomi's hand. She felt her hand become warm again, and that bright magic caught Team Natsu's attention to where they smiled at Lucy's new skill. Interestingly enough, she also got some unwanted attention.
"Wow, it's Celestial Spirit Magic! It's awesome to look at, but that magic is also awesome in better hands!" A blue-haired girl exclaimed in a happy manner, as she walked towards the group while leaving the town with a brown bag of jewels in one hand.
Erza asked her with a curious facial expression, as she recognized this girl, "Aren't you the client? Why not just wait for us to come to you? Also, are you trying to say you want Lucy's magic?"
The girl with cerulean blue eyes replied with a calm smile on her face, "Yeah, I'm the client. You were taking longer than I anticipated just to get some Snowflake Candies. Anyway, your friend should trade that magic for a few of my spells."
Kotomi responded for Erza while narrowing her eyes, as she didn't want her scheming to get ruined, "I'm not trading my Celestial Spirit Magic or my golden keys for anything, especially not for a girl's mediocre magic!"
The girl who was wanting to exchange magic with Kotomi was named Emiria Hidenka, and she had sky blue hair that reached down to the upper part of her back while two shoulder-length strands of hair framed her face. She also wore a light blue jacket that reached all the way down to her stomach, the dark blue bottom hem of the jacket stopping right before her bellybutton, and this girl also wore a miniskirt that was in a darker shade of light blue with a thin diamond-studded white belt hanging over her waist while the diamonds were in a cyan shade of blue.
Emiria's hands lightly touched the diamonds for them to start ringing softly like small chimes were in them, and she started to look at Kotomi with a facial expression that showed absolute disbelief. Her magic was not mediocre, and Emiria would be glad to trade some of her high-level spells for some of Kotomi's Celestial Spirit Magic. Trading magic was something that could actually be done in Fiore, since there were spells that made people exchange their Caster Magic, and people would even exchange their Holder Magic for tools that were more powerful.
Emiria decided to demonstrate her high level of power by quickly making a light blue aura engulf her body, and she aimed her right hand straight at Kotomi. That prompted Kotomi to get up and take some steps back, and she got to see Emiria fire a spiraling light blue beam of energy from her hand. It created an average-sized explosion with light blue clouds of smoke, before creating several large shards of ice that appeared to form a crown, and Emiria decided to be even more impressive by firing a light blue orb from her mouth. She quickly grabbed the orb, before exhaling her frosty breath on to it, and Emiria threw it at the crown of ice shards. Upon making contact with the ice, the orb and the ice exploded in a massive light blue blast! The icy winds blew through the area and sent the smoke into another part of the forest, and the blast left behind small light blue sparkles that lightly fell to the ground.
"Is my magic still mediocre, or have I intimidated you to where we can make a good trade?" Emiria asked Kotomi while starting to arrogantly smirk at her own power, thinking that she was the best mage in Seigan Town.
Kotomi responded sternly while narrowing her eyes and charging up her Celestial Spirit Magic, "You're not that tough, so don't even try to fight me. In fact, you're getting me in the mood to take down someone as evil as you."
Emiria asked her with a defensive facial expression while raising one of her fists, "Evil? You seriously think I'm evil, even though I'm not interested in dealing with dark mages?"
Erza sighed in a somewhat miffed manner while taking the brown bag of jewels from Emiria's hand, and she simply pushed the basket against Emiria's stomach. That might have been a bit rude, but Erza simply walked past her while thinking about how the team wasn't near Seigan Town for any fights to occur. They simply took on a task that was fairly easy, and they didn't need any overconfident wizards bothering them with nonsense. Erza proceeded to go into Seigan Town with the money while she was probably headed to the train, and Natsu ran after her.
That left Emiria with Gray and Kotomi, but both of them chose to just walk past her without even trying to start a fight. Kotomi simply turned around to fire three gold orbs that had small stars circling around them, and they struck one of the trees. After a few seconds, the tree was engulfed in a massive blast while two spinning blasts in a golden color occurred afterwards. She was simply demonstrating her level of power to Emiria, who closed her eyes as the winds intensely blew past her, and Kotomi smirked rudely as she inhaled that wind for a few seconds. A mint green aura was now around her body, but Kotomi was lucky that Gray walked ahead of her and missed his chance to see this.
She quietly activated the Kaze's Feather Dance spell, and two large mint green bird wings lightly fell from the air to lightly touch her feet. They quickly disappeared, and Kotomi smirked as she hastily got in front of Emiria in what seemed like one second. She quickly appeared to be standing far away from Emiria, before quickly getting in front of her again when she tried to walk away, and Kotomi started to confound her with speed. Upon seeing Emiria try to throw a punch at her, Kotomi quickly moved to only be an inch away from where Emiria's was punch supposed to land. She moved around quite fast, making Emiria look pretty startled to where she thought that Kotomi's afterimages were all that she was seeing during this little confrontation, and Kotomi left the forest at high speeds while deciding to quickly be at another part of the town.
Ten minutes later, in Seigan Town...
Kotomi stood in front of a bakery that sold Seigan Town's desserts in a sweet flavor that smelled just like white chocolate, smiling a bit from how a customer recently opened the door for her nose to get a nice whiff of the desserts that were being sold in only one flavor, and she quickly canceled her high-speed spell. Kotomi widened her eyes in a shocked manner from seeing Team Natsu walk down a street that led to an area where there were many shops that looked cute, and she hastily ran over to them while hoping to not look suspicious. She ran down the dark blue tiled street that had its beautiful patterns covered by snow, and the antagonist hoped to somehow cover her tracks.
She hastily turned right and ran up to Gray, who looked quite confused from seeing Lucy be in front of him when she was just behind him in the forest. Lucy's impostor calmly smiled at him while her eyes shifted to a flower shop that was nearby, and the group of mages walked up to the store for the purpose of seeing the types of plants that could thrive in cold environments. Gray looked down at his yellow plaid shirt and his black jeans, before giving Lucy a nice smile, and he wondered if she would be interested in buying any of the plants.
Kotomi and the members of Team Natsu took some more steps to be at the store's front door instead of just looking at the plants through the glass window, but Kotomi simply folded her arms while not being very impressed. She had a displeased look in her eyes from seeing how someone would try to have a business that involved selling plants such as bonsai trees that were covered in the white snow, and Kotomi even got to see how the shop even had small pine trees on a light blue table while those pine trees were beautifully made from light blue ice.
Gray chuckled at Lucy while looking at her, wondering if she was expecting to see this store in the winter town have flowers that only grew in the summertime, and his dark blue eyes took notice of the sculptures that resembled icy pine trees. Gray also got to see that the store had saplings with light blue leaves in brown flower pots, and the leaves being in that odd color seemed to really intrigue him. Most plants that grew in snowy or icy areas didn't usually have natural leaves that were white like snow or as bright as light blue ice, so he wondered if the owner of that shop was infusing a hybrid of Plant Magic and Ice-Make Magic into her plants and sculptures.
"The people here must really love to use Ice-Make Magic for useful purposes, Lucy." Gray told her in a calm tone while smiling.
Kotomi thought to herself as she smiled back, only giggling at Gray's words, "The people here can create plants, but that just reminds me of when I harmed a business owner and ruined her stupid plant shop in Tokiwa."
Natsu spoke for Kotomi as he teasingly smiled at Gray, "They love to use ice, but at least they aren't stripping all the time in this cold place like you would,"
Gray sternly asked Natsu while fiercely frowning at him, "What did you just say, flame-brain?!"
Their argument prompted Erza to glare at them with an intense amount of deadliness, as she didn't want to hear them start to argue loudly in public, and the two boys quickly began to hug each other like they were the best pair of friends. Neither of them wanted to feel the wrath of Erza Scarlet's power, and Kotomi simply let out a soft sigh of relief. Team Natsu's members officially had all of their attention focused on each other, which meant that Kotomi could now feel happy about how she wouldn't be facing any questions for being somewhat far from her teammates.
That allowed the thief to remain calm while she started to scope out the streets and all of the snow in Seigan Town, seeing many people having fun on different streets while some people even drank hot peppermint mocha coffees from some concession stands, and seeing people not have their hands near the pockets of their winter coats certainly made this be the perfect time for thievery to occur. Kotomi took a few steps away from Team Natsu while also seeing that there were merchant shops near some of the cafes, and they probably sold some nice treasures.
Kotomi would be glad to get some of those valuable items, since they could be tied to some of the flyers that were in the Moon Rainbow guild, but taking some illegal jobs to get high amounts of money would require her to get some time away from Team Natsu. Kotomi would probably have to come back here later when those three mages were all busy, since this didn't seem like the right time for her to try and kill any of them, and the fact that they still thought that she was truly the real Lucy Heartfilia just made Kotomi feel even better. In fact, she feigned a genuine smile while wanting to be persuasive towards her teammates.
"Let's check out more of the town, everyone! They may even be selling some delicious treats in Seigan!" Kotomi happily told her teammates while smiling, before turning around and walking back down the street.
Natsu responded with a delighted smile on his face, as he happily ran to catch up with Kotomi, "Getting sweet desserts is definitely a great idea, especially if those treats are very hot!"
Erza told her friends in a calm tone while she and Gray ran after them, "Let's be sure to save most of our money, though!"
Kotomi quickly made a left turn to be on the adjacent street where the bakery was located, and she ran towards the end of the street to see that it split into two different paths. The path on the left simply led to a light blue rock that was surrounded by seven white icicles that stood around it in a circle, and Kotomi wasn't interested in how some girls who appeared to be wizards were gently placing their hands against the rock while they seemed to be sending their magic into it. The path on the right led to another area where residents and tourists seemed to be enjoying themselves with winter activities, so Kotomi headed in that direction.
Kotomi and the other members of Team Natsu got to see that this path led to some more shops, as well as several houses that had their rooftops covered by some snow, and there was even a large ice rink that was situated in front of a light blue statue of an iceberg with white icicles on top of it that curved downward to possibly resemble icy fangs. Seeing the fangs made Natsu start to look excited about how there could be some strong people for him to fight against, and he comically ran off at high speeds to enter the ice rink.
As Natsu quickly went sliding across the ice and caught people's attention by spinning around in the ice rink in an attempt to maintain his balance on the ice's slippery surface, Kotomi shifted her attention to her own appearance. She wore a mint green T-shirt with some light green plaid yoga pants that felt quite warm, and Kotomi also wore some brown flat shoes. She had her blonde haired styled in a ponytail that was on the right side of her head, and she certainly looked like a normal tourist. As Kotomi ran up to one of the nearby merchant shops to see what they were selling, she started to feel slightly curious about if the real Lucy Heartfilia was using any magical items or just crying about not having her keys.
Two hours later, in the woods near Kuchiba Town...
After finishing that job of getting cupcakes for a client, Lucy and her friends rode the train from Kogane Town to be back in Kuchiba Town. However, they weren't there to check out the town's attractions this time. Lucy went all the way into the deepest part of the woods near Kuchiba Town with Sting and Risa, liking how all the trees that had leaves in the autumn colors of orange and yellows were standing across from the trees that had red leaves, and the fact that this place was a dead end made Lucy feel happy. She could train here in this area where the trees circled around her while none of the townspeople or tourists would end up getting hurt, and the fact that no gravestones or sacred monuments were here simply meant that this part of the woods wasn't really cared for by Kuchiba Town's people. Therefore, they wouldn't mind if Lucy used her Earth Magic here.
Lucy opened the orange book to the page where she saw the Aura Blast spell, and she decided to activate it again. Lucy handed the book to Risa, who kept it opened to that section, and she was ready to use the spell Lucy stretched out her right hand while having her left hand tightly grip her right wrist, and Lucy aimed her attack at the small area that was in between two trees. Lucy watched the orange aura of Earth Magic engulf her right hand, and it began to swirl around in a clockwise manner. The aura bounced off of Lucy's hand to end up grazing one of the trees, and her attack created a small explosion. Lucy decided to use the Aura Blast attack again, before using it consecutively to see the odd results from this morning, and the aura went back into her hand again. However, Lucy quickly punched the ground her right hand to see it be struck by an orange explosion that was quite large, and seeing chunks of earth be sent upward made Lucy wonder if this spell got stronger by sending its energy into her hand for all the energy to be released in one strike. The spell's high amount of power made Lucy smile, but she did recall seeing another awesome spell earlier in the morning.
Lucy activated her second spell of Earth Magic, which was known as Explosive Earth Tomb, and that spell required Lucy to stretch both of her arms forward. She quickly shot out two large brown rocks from her hands while an orange aura surrounded them, and Lucy clapped her hands once in a loud manner. That made the large rocks break apart into smaller rocks, and they fell down to the broken chunks of earth. Upon touching the ground, Lucy's rocks detonated to create several large orange blasts. She closed her eyes to avoid the bright light, but it faded away quickly. Risa stood next to Lucy while handing her the book, and she was just as surprised as Sting to see the ground loudly break apart to create a cavernous hole.
The sight of that hole really surprised Lucy, as she didn't expect her spell to be at that level of power to where it smashed through the damaged ground with ease, and she turned a few pages to see her next spell. The third spell that Lucy used was known as Sandy Crush, and she shot out a vortex of brown sand from her mouth while looking down at the hole. The sand went down to the bottom of the hole, before it sprang up as a large amount of sand like a geyser that had a powerful amount of pressure, and the sand began to fill up the hole. It quickly hardened into brown earth, almost like the ground was new, and there was no explosion.
"It's a spell of Earth Magic that just creates more of the ground?" Lucy asked aloud while looking stunned, as she didn't think that spell would be useful.
Sting responded to her with a nice smile on his face, as he walked up to her, "Judging by that geyser of sand, Lucy, you could probably strike airborne enemies. Also, it's interesting how that sand fell down while having so much pressure."
Lucy told him with a look of realization in her eyes, before shifting her attention to the ground, "Sting, I could crush enemies with this attack. After that, I could break the ground apart with explosions to damage enemies when they're very close to the surface."
The exciting ways of how that spell could be used really made Lucy feel glad enough to turn a few more pages, and she chose to activate her fourth spell of Earth Magic. This new spell was known as Muddy Terra, and it made Lucy shoot out a brown ball of mud from her left hand. The ball of mud simply hit the ground, before it melted down to create a mud puddle, and Lucy watched another ball of mud rise up from that puddle. Lucy activated the spell again while aiming the mud ball at the puddle, only to see it expand while it also began to start bubbling, and seeing small clouds of steam emerge from the puddle made Lucy wonder if that mud could be hot enough to burn foes.
That would definitely injure Lucy's enemies to where they would have to deal with pain from being burned while also possibly dealing with her throwing heavy boulders at them, but Lucy smiled in a calm manner as she turned a page to see other ways that Earth Magic demonstrated how mages could have strength. Lucy chose to unleash the fifth spell, which was known as Earthy Healing, and she built up a high amount of magical power. An orange aura engulfed Lucy's body while it started to mainly engulf her left hand, and she followed the book's instruction on making her hand turn into a clenched fist. Lucy proceeded to punch the ground, only to see thin orange beams of Earth Magic come up from it, and they all gently entered her body. Lucy suddenly felt herself become healed to where she even had more magical power, and her punch began to make large cracks occur in the ground as she kept putting power into her fist.
Lucy moved her fist up from the ground, before exhaling a soft breath to calm herself down, and the spell started to wear off. As the aura around her body began to fade away, Lucy turned her attention to the adjacent page. She activated the sixth spell that was known as Sherbet Soft Clay, and this spell strangely made a gooey ball of cocoa brown clay appear in Lucy's left hand. She gave the book's instructions an awkward look from how she had to eat the clay, but Lucy felt like this spell wasn't intended to kill the user. She simply closed her eyes, and Lucy stuffed the brown clay into her mouth. She chewed on the clay and swallowed it, which made Risa really glad that she didn't have to eat it.
"Yeah, gooey clay is something that should totally be on a menu. In fact, it's even enjoyable before someone attacks you with it." Risa said to herself in a sarcastic tone, as she gave Lucy a displeased look.
Lucy responded with a comically shocked look on her face, as she suddenly jumped higher than expected, "It even makes you be light enough to jump incredibly high, and soft clay definitely has weird effects!"
Sting told her in a calm tone while stepping back with Risa, before chuckling, "The spell just makes you jump very high, and there's nothing awesome about-"
The white dragon slayer was silenced by the loud sound of Lucy coming down to the ground, watching an orange blast of Earth Magic occur around her body while the large blast expanded outward for a few seconds, and Sting could hear the hardened ground starting to crack around Lucy's feet. The light faded away for him and Risa to see the large cracks in the earth, and Lucy must've harshly come down to the ground like a meteorite coming down from the sky to hit the ground with an immense amount of force. Some smaller orange explosions started to occur within the ground's cracks, and Sting didn't want Lucy to get hurt.
He quickly ran towards Lucy with a concerned look on his face, and he hastily grabbed her hand. Sting got Lucy out of that situation while they both got to see how every crack in the ground resulted in another explosion occurring, and several smaller rocks were sent high in the air. Sting backed away from them with Risa and Lucy, seeing how this spell was probably as powerful as an earthquake, and it really surprised him by how Lucy's light jump ended up sending Earth Magic into her feet for that landing to have a large amount of weight to it.
Sting looked down at Lucy's flat shoes that were in the normal shade of red, before seeing that she wore some red Capri pants again, and Lucy wore a red halter top with an orange jean jacket to match. Sting started to blush from how Lucy proceeded to give him a tight hug, and she was happy that he saved her. Sting liked how Lucy's sense of style was always as appealing as her spells, and he softly hugged back. Sting got to hear Lucy giggle as she ended the hug, before she turned around to playfully shake her booty at how she had some good spells of Earth Magic, and seeing the way her ass moved from side to side in those Capri pants made Sting start to blush more. He chose to stay silent about that while trying to comically maintain a friendly smile, and Lucy's attractiveness was starting to be just as appealing as her personality. She playfully kept dancing while thinking that some other spells could be used later, but Lucy turned around to see Sting blushing. That only made her cheeks start to blush light pink, as Lucy wondered if she impressed Sabertooth's guild master to such a high degree, and she would probably use her other spells later. Lucy felt like she trained enough in the woods to be prepared for another tough mission, and she started walking back to the area where the gravestones were located. Sting followed her while continuing to blush, really liking how Lucy was strong and sexy, but he decided to not make any flirty moves towards her. Upon seeing Sting blush at Lucy's dancing again, Risa simply giggled happily at how those two simply loved being very close to each other, and her eyes were filled with happiness from seeing Lucy be so happy that Sting came to her rescue again. In fact, Lucy and Sting seemed to be improving their great bond to where Risa would probably see them kiss at some point. As that cute thought entered her mind, Risa smiled at how her friends made this current day be brighter than certain memories of her past.
How was Chapter 15? Feel free to tell me your thoughts on it. Lucy and Sting just keep getting cuter together, and they're definitely having some interesting moments. Risa seems to also be getting more interesting, but her arc with Parmanie Town shall occur later on. It won't be happening very late in the story, so any fans of Risa won't have to worry. Just wait a bit longer. Speaking of waiting, allow me to address that side plot with Kotomi and Emiria. Seigan Town wasn't fully shown off, was it? Foreshadowing for a later arc, maybe? On the subject of arcs in this story, this is the last aftermath chapter of the post-Sherbet Earth Arc! The next chapter starts the next arc in the story, so we'll see some new OCs! I'll update soon. :)
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