In Era Master Makarov got done talking to the Members of the Magic Council and was happy to hear Fairy Tail will not be held accountable for their crimes. Mainly because they still owed the Ishgar Demon and they knew it.

Makarov sighed, "While I'm glad Phantom Lord was disbanded and Jose was stripped of his rank, I have to admit I'm a little surprised that Fairy Tail was found innocent."

Yajima chuckled, "That's because the council knows the Ishgar Demon would never attack someone unprovoked".

Makarov shook his head, "What do you mean?"

Yajima looked at him, "Your newest member has an M.O. no matter where she goes, or what she destroys it is never without reason and always after someone else has made the first move".

Makarov raised a brow, "Really?"

"Hmm."

Makarov closed his eyes, "Lucy Heartfilia, you truly are a mystery".


Fairy Tail

"Listen up everyone! We're taking up job requests again starting today! You'll have to excuse the mess while we're under construction, but at least you can get back to work!" Mira announced cheerfully.

Everyone cheered happy they could finally start taking up jobs again much to Lucy's amusement.

"It's great everyone's happy again, and busy so I can sneak away to Erza's place." Lucy smiled.

Mira giggled, "It is nice isn-wait, what did you say?"

Lucy sipped her beer slowly refusing to repeat herself, also not wanting to get in trouble for breaking and entering in another's person house.

"Lucy what did you say?" Mira asked again, still not getting an answer instead getting interrupted by Natsu and Gray, who decided to run over to Lucy to ask a question they deemed important.

"Hey Lucy, who's the strongest?! Me or this guy?!" they yelled.

"Uh, out of you two? I don't know you guys are pretty equal in my opinion, but I mean overall I'm the strongest" She responded.

Mira and Happy laughed while Gray and Natsu's jaws dropped.

"Luuucy that's mean~" Natsu whined.

She went to speak again when a barrel came soaring through the air hitting her in the head. "Ouch, who threw that" she asked looking for the culprit while everyone else looked at her in awe that she didn't pass out.

"Why don't you tell the others how you feel?!" Erza yelled.

Lucy stood up growling, "Who's making my mate mad?"

Those by the bar looked to see Erza currently glaring at Laxus who had an arrogant smirk on his face.

"I have no problem telling them what I think of 'em," he grinned, "This guild's full of nothing but losers and weaklings."

He turned to Jet and Droy, "Especially the two of you morons. You were Phantom's personal punching bags, you know I'm glad I never bothered to learn your names."

Jet and Droy looked down ashamed.

He looked over at Lucy who was picking wood out of her hair, "And then there's the blondie who started all this in the first place. Why are you still even here?"

Lucy looked around to see she was the only other blonde in the guild indicating Laxus was speaking to her, causing the guild to sweat drop.

"Pfft, I'm here for two reasons" Lucy says with a dopey grin.

"Oh, and what's that?" Laxus asked, rolling his eyes at blonde..

Pulling a surprised scarlet haired mage to her side "First, Erza has yet to accept my claim so I'm working on getting her to say yes, and second I promised Natsu I'd be his partner so I definitely can't leave" Lucy said, pulling a grinning Natsu to her other.

Laxus lost his grin quickly putting everyone on edge. He then got up from his seat, "You are easily the stupidest guild member we've ever had, and that's saying something considering we have Natsu".

Lucy frowned at Laxus words and let both of her friends go, "Now hold on just a second lightning bolt, I may not be bright but don't go bringing Natsu into this. Got it" Cracking her knuckles she pointed to the burly man, "And I'm not that stupid if I can make wizard saint rank, unlike you who can't even do a S-class quest without a 4-person team!"

Lighting engulfed Laxus, ""Excuse me? I don't think I heard you." Off by the side, Happy, Mira, Natsu and Erza were beginning to worry about the blonde's safety, she may be strong but Laxus was an unknown variable when he was angry.

"Tch, I know for a fact you heard me. Now apologize to everyone before I make you" Lucy said flippantly.

"How bout I do this, instead" Laxus said sending a large amount of lighting towards the blonde too fast for any normal mage to dodge. The entire guild watched in horror as it went to hit Lucy who stood still aiming to take it head on.

"LUCY!" Natsu, Erza and Gray yelled as they saw the lightning go to hit the girl, then somehow suddenly disappear while Lucy sighed in content.

"My tongue tingles" Lucy said chuckling at not being able to feel her tongue.

All those around her, including Laxus stared at her in disbelief, they couldn't believe she just swallowed the s-class mages lightning like it was nothing.

"What-the hell" Laxus stuttered looking at the weirdo in front of him who just ate his magic.

Lucy looked back to Laxus grinning, making him nervous once he saw his lightning begin to arc from her. "My turn" she said before rushing towards Laxus and shouting, "Lightning demons hellfire fist!" instantly knocking out Laxus when her fist reached his face.

"Oh my, I didn't know Lucy could do that," Mira said.

"I know, I honestly thought she was dead meat for a second…then again from the stories she's told us I don't know why I'm surprised she ate lightning" Gray commented.

Happy nodded, "Yeah, well Lucy did say that her demon taught her a bunch of tricks and stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if eating other elements was one of them."

Natsu was staring at the aftermath of the showdown between Lucy and Laxus, "Man, Luce really had us going for a sec!"

"What the devil do you think you're doing?!" Makarov yelled, looking at his unconscious grandson and Lucy who currently had lightning arcing off her.

The blonde looked to her right and saw it was master Makarov who didn't look very happy.

"Explain this!" he demanded.

Lucy walked over to him shrugging, "He attacked me first, so naturally I defended myself by attacking him back."

Makarov shivered at the cold look in her eyes, seeing no signs of deceit in her eyes, but also no remorse for knocking Laxus out, he merely sighed "I understand, but please, hold back your strength when fighting".

Walking off she shot the peace sign, "Depends".

Makarov looked at his grandson and shook him awake, "Laxus, go home now! You've caused enough trouble for today!"

Laxus woke up groaning and glared not only at his grandfather but at Lucy promising payback. He turned his back to them and scoffed disappearing in a bolt of lightning.

Makarov couldn't help but sigh at his grandson's behavior, "I don't know what's wrong with that boy, but his attitude will get him into serious trouble one day."

Lucy looked at him, "Hey, uh Old man…"

Makarov smiled at her, "Why don't you and your team grab a job request to go on? It's been awhile since you all went on one."

Lucy frowned, "I don't know I'm pretty tired, and I kind of wanna sneak into Erza's room-

"What was that?" Master asked.

"I said I'm gonna go get a snack before I check out Mira's brooms" Lucy coughed while walking to the request board and avoid Master. Finding a job proved easy so taking it off the board she brought it over to Mira who managed to revert to her normal happy self, "Could you stamp this Mira?"

Mira smiled at her gently, "Of course." She grabbed the request and stamped it.

Lucy turned to her team who had yet to move from their spot. "Pfft, guys let's go we got a job request to do!"


The job request was disappointing to say the least. They were told they would be fighting a band of thieves which were causing trouble for the nearby village, but to Team Natsu's disappointment they weren't all that hard to take out. Gray and Natsu tag teamed a group of the thieves while Lucy and Erza took out the other half, together it took less than twenty minutes to finish the job.

They arrived at the clients place and he gave them the full reward money letting them be able to head back to Magnolia ahead of schedule.

"That was pretty boring" Lucy grumbled kicking pebbles alongside the road.

"Yeah" Natsu and Gray grumbled.

Erza clapped her hands getting their attention, "Since we've completed the job early, I was thinking we could go to a spa, how does that sound?"

Lucy had stars in her eyes, "Yes mate, that sounds excellent. I've heard about these spas, but I've never been to one before"

"Me neither! Let's go!" Happy said.

"Sweet!" Natsu grinned.

"Sounds good to me." Gray smirked.

Erza smiled, "Then it's settled we're all going."

"Aye!" they said.


Hosenka Town Spa

Lucy and Erza were currently in the women's bath relaxing, after much debate of whether Lucy should be with the boys or not-

"I'm gonna see you naked eventually Erza, might as well let me now" Lucy said with a smirk, before getting bonked on the head.

"I'll allow you to bathe with me but try anything and I'll stab you" Erza threatened.

"Gotcha!" Lucy winked.

-And both were having a good time. Lucy was currently underwater soaking in the heat finally emerging when she needed air. "This bath is amazing!"

Erza stood up from the water, "It is. And the moon is quite nice tonight as well."

Lucy looked over to see when she noticed she still had on her armor. Sweat-dropping she decided to ask why her mate was still in clothing, "Mate…you know you can take your armor off in here and just relax right? I already promised not to do anything".

"I'm more relaxed with it on." Erza stated.

"Hmm, I know what you mean, I never go anywhere without my cloak" Lucy says standing up to show her cloak still on, "but still, doesn't it feel kind of uncomfortable even just a little?" Lucy asked, not noticing her mate blushing at seeing her naked.

" Now that you mention it. It does," she said, "I may need to reconsider my definition of relaxation."

"It's alright mate, once we're mated, I'll show you how to relax better" Lucy grinned, watching Erza requip her armor away.

Lucy stared in awe, "Wow, you've one amazing body mate."

"Uh, thank you... you have a nice body too." Erza complimented.

"Thanks, I work out", Lucy said proudly flexing, still not noticing how much she was making Erza blush.


At the Inn

"All right! Let's get this party started!" Natsu grinned holding two pillows in his hands.

"Aye!" Happy said holding one up in the air.

Gray groaned from his futon, "Oh come on, I'm trying to sleep here. Why don't you take your party outside?"

"It's a sleepover! You know that means, right? You gotta bust out your pillow, or are you too scared?" Natsu taunted.

"Of you?" Gray scoffed, "Yeah right."

"Hmph, my arsenal is equipped with only the most powerful pillows." Erza smirked.

Lucy looked at her mate, with a gleam in her eye, "Lucifer said always make sure to impress your mate". Grabbing the pillows that were deposited next to her by Virgo, Lucy fluffed them before preparing herself for battle.

"Too bad for you Lucy, looks like you're gonna be letting Erza down today!" Natsu said getting ready to throw the pillow.

Gray sighed, "Grow up you guys." Natsu threw the pillow at Lucy only for her to backflip out of the way while it hit the ice mage instead.

Gray growled and stood up, "You're in for it now!" he looked down and saw that he had a mountain of pillows by his side and grinned, "Oh! Look at all these pillows." Behind him hiding behind a big rock was the water mage Juvia who had a pillow in her hand.

Gray sent the pillow flying at Natsu making a direct hit while throwing another one at Erza who simply caught it in her hand. Lucy watched them throw pillows back and forth, having a good time and noticed three were coming right at her, grinning she saw this as the perfect chance to take aim.

"Take this!" and quickly dodging the three pillows she three the one in her hand straight at Natsu throwing him through their rooms' wall. Next Lucy looked at Gray and Erza who quickly decided to team up realizing the disadvantage they had over the overpowered girl. Tossing as many pillows as they could at her she continued to dodge finally seeing an opening when they ran out of pillows and tossing two pillows at her teammates pushing them outside of the room and knocking them out.

Smiling Lucy looked to her teammates and innocently asked "So I won right?"

"Uhhh, remind me to never have pillow fight with Lucy again" Gray moaned.

"Agreed" Erza said getting up.


At the Guild

Gray and Natsu were in the middle of glaring at Lucy.

"What's up with these two?" Elfman questioned.

"Evidently the two of them were hurt during a pillow fight after their last job." Mira explained.

"If they're that banged up then those pillows must've been full of bricks." Elfman stated.

"No, they just forgot how strong Lucy was, and that she doesn't really know how to hold back" Mira giggled.

"It was just a pillow fight what were you getting so worked up about?!" Gray growled.

"Lucifer said to always give it your all when you fight, and I wanted to impress Erza" Lucy said nonchalantly.

"Are you kidding me, you almost broke my back Luce!" Natsu yelled.

"Seriously, think you knocked one of Erza's tooth out too" Gray joked.

"And Erza would still look beautiful without that tooth" Lucy said, missing the others faces drop.


"Yo, Lucy!" Loke yelled drawing the blonde's attention.

"Oh Loke, what's up? I forgot you were still even out" Lucy laughed.

"Wait Loke's been out his whole time and you were fine. I thought Celestial mages had like a limit to how long their keys could be open?" Gray asked confused.

Lucy tapped her chin in thought, "Yeah, that's true but I'm me so...yeah. Anyways I promised Loke he could stay out if he helps me beat Jose and since he did, I held up my end of the bargain and let him hang out on Earthland".

"Holy shit she's strong!" the guild thought.

"So, what'd you want" Lucy asked.

"Oh well, I just wanted to give you a thank you gift for letting me use some of you power to hang out. I know you're strong but even you have your limits" Loke said smiling, then bringing out four resort tickets, "Here you go."

"What are these?" Lucy questioned.

"Their tickets to this awesome beach resort. I know you've never been, so I thought what better way to say thank you for all you've done then treat you to a new experience" Loke smiled.

They took them gratefully much to his amusement, "I already gave Erza her ticket, I hope you guys have a good time."

"Come on chop chop! No lollygagging, now hurry up or I'll leave you behind." Erza told them wearing beach clothing and having packed a lot of luggage.

"So much stuff!" Gray exclaimed.

Lucy watched them with a smile, "This is the perfect way to serenade Erza, you are the greatest wingman on Earthland, Loke!"

"You know it" Loke laughed as he disappeared.

Erza approached her, "Are you packed yet? We're about ready to leave."

"Of course, mate, I'm always packed", showing a bag underneath her cloak, she smiled.

"How did I not see that?" Erza asked.

"Come on Lucy lets go to the beach!" Natsu yelled with excitement.

"Aye!" Happy agreed.

"I can't wait to get to the beach to soak up some rays." Gray smirked.

"Me too, what an unexpected treat it would be." Erza smirked, "Now let's have some fun."

"Aye!" they all yelled.

Lucy noticed Erza's beautiful smile, how bright it was, little did she know that smile would soon vanish.


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