What's up guys! Balance Breaker: chapter 7 is here! Hope you like this one. about the vote for Laki, I need three more to make my plans for her officially. We'll deal for that later, for now enjoy reading chapter 7.
CHAPTER 7: Sandersonna
Natsu, Levy, and Lisanna was stunned at Laki's words.
"your.. father?"
Laki nodded. "the tattoo that you saw on his neck was my mother's name."
Natsu widen his eyes a little. "Ladia?"
Laki placed both of her hands on Natsu's shoulders, and looked at him with pleading eyes. "please! Can you at least try and remember.. if he ever told you anything about where he lives or where he's going.. anything!" she begged.
Natsu stared at her with sadness in his eyes. "I'm sorry.. I wanted to help you but.. I don't remember anything else about him except his looks.. I'm really sorry." Tears started to fall on Laki's eyes.
The scene at their table, caught the attention of the other members. They all stood up from their seats to see what is going on.
"Natsu! Explain to me what is happening here, and why is Laki crying?!" Erza demanded as she approached their table.
Kinana quickly pulled Laki and gave her a hug to comfort her. "what's going on guys?" she asked.
"it wasn't our fault!" Happy quickly defended as he hugged Natsu's head.
"Laki heard us talking about a person, which happen to be her missing dad." Levy explained.
"oh my!" Mira covered her mouth with her right hand.
Erza nods her head. "I see.." she then turned to the other members. "this is just a misunderstanding, now go back to your seats!" she ordered. As the commotion has subsided, Laki wiped her tears and bowed to Natsu and the others.
"I'm sorry for causing a scene."
Lisanna smiled at her. "it's ok, we understand."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry." Natsu apologized.
Laki quickly waved her hands on front. "no! That was all on me!"
Natsu made a serious look, he stand up and punched his left hand with his right fist. "yosh! I promised you, if I see him again I'll tie him up and bring him here for you!"
Laki smiled a little. "you don't need to do that." She sat down and looked at the ground. "he probably wasn't interested in seeing me anyway, considering he left us in the first place." She let out a fake laugh.
"but you wanted him to know who you are, right?"
They all turned their heads and found Cana, sitting on top of a table not too far from them while holding a barrel of beer.
"trust me, I know."
Laki understand what she meant, considering she also had the same problem before. She let out a soft sigh. "yeah.. I guess your right, but even if I want to.. I don't know where to look for him, I don't even know his name."
Cana raised her an eyebrow. "huh? Why?"
"my mother never told me. She said that when the time comes.. he will be the one that would introduce himself to me. I only know what he looks like, because of the portrait that my mother gave me."
Gray sighed in disappointment. "your quite unfortunate, the only lead you have to find your father was ruined because of this idiot's low memory." Gray pointed his thumb at Natsu.
Natsu grew a thick mark. "what did you say? You snow princess!" he glared at the ice mage.
Gray glared back. "you heard me! Flame brain!" the two made a glaring contest until..
*BAM!* *BAM!*
"Enough!" Erza ordered as she left the beat up bodies of the two mages. Natsu winced from the pain as he touched the huge bump on his head.
"ow! If only Lucy was here, she cou-" Natsu suddenly stopped and gasped. "That's it!"
Laki and the others looked at him confusingly. Natsu grinned at them while scratching the back of his head. "I forgot.. Lucy was there when I met the guy, she might have remembered something more than me. Hehe.."
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US EARLIER!" they shouted at him.
Happy sighed. "that's Natshu for you."
~Afternoon at Lucy's apartment~
*knock* *knock*
"coming!" Lucy said before opening her door.
"hey Lu-chan!" Levy greeted.
Lucy smiled. "Levy! What brings you here?"
"well.." Levy looked to her left as Laki walked in and stood beside her.
"hello Lucy."
Lucy blinked twice. "Laki?"
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"so.. what's up?" Lucy asked as she sat down on the floor while placing the tray of teas on her small table with Levy and Laki sitting across from her.
Levy took a sip from her tea. "we came here to talk to you about the guy that you and Natsu met a long time ago."
Lucy tilted her head to the side. "a guy that we met.. a long time ago?"
Laki nodded. "Natsu said that you guys met an archeologist before."
"he was the one that gave Natsu the paper where we learned the information about the Balance Breaker." Levy added.
Lucy put her finger on her chin to think. "a long time ago? we did met an archeologist, but that was only three months ago. It wasn't that long."
Levy sighed. "Lucy.. we were stuck in time for 7 years, remember?"
Lucy gasped. "Oh! Riiight… why do I always forget about that?" she looked at her two visitors. "so what about him?"
Levy gestured Laki to speak, Laki nodded and looked at Lucy. "actually.. that man was my Father." Lucy widen her eyes.
"eh? Father?!"
Laki nods her head. "my mother told me that one month before I was born, father suddenly went missing."
"oh.. you must have hate him, huh?" Lucy asked.
Laki nodded. "actually I hate every men, they're just a bunch of perverts that will leave you after they got what they wanted."
Levy and Lucy sweatdropped at her statement. 'woah! Straight to the point!.' They thought in unison.
Laki frowned while looking down at the table. "but I still wanted to meet him, I want answers! Why did he suddenly disappear? Why did he left my mother alone despite knowing that she's pregnant?! I want him to answer all of that!" Levy placed a hand on Laki's shoulder to calm her down.
Laki sighed and bowed at Lucy. "sorry.. I didn't mean to raised my voiced."
Lucy shakes her head. "it's fine.. I understand your feelings." She smiled.
"so Lu-chan.. do you remember anything that can help Laki on finding him." Levy asked her best friend.
Lucy crossed her arms under her bust and closed her I eyes to think. Laki waits patiently for Lucy, hoping she would say something that can help her. Moments later..
Lucy snapped her fingers. "that's it! I remember him saying that he was on his way to meet his friend, who happen to be an owner of a small bar here in Magnolia!"
Laki and Levy smiled widely at what she said, then Laki grabbed Lucy's hand. "can you tell me the name of the bar?!" she excitedly asked.
Lucy made an apologetic smile. "sorry.. I didn't get the name of the bar. But don't worry! There aren't many small bars here, so it cant be that hard to find it."
Levy nods to agree. "all you need to do is go in all of the small bars around here one by one, and asked about your father."
Laki smiled at the two. "thank you! Now I know where I should start." She bowed in gratitude.
"when will you start your little bar hunting?" Lucy asked.
"tomorrow, I'll ask Kinana for help."
Lucy pondered for a bit. "hmm.. I think you should also bring Cana with you, that drunkard knows anything when it comes to drinks and bars." She advised.
Laki smiled. "your right, I'll do that." She then stood up from her seat. "thank you again for your help Lucy, I really appreciate it."
Lucy waved her off with a smile. "it was nothing, I'm glad I could help."
"I guess I'll be going now, I need to tell Kinana about the plan for tomorrow. I'll see you around Lucy." Laki bowed before walking to the door, Levy stood up too.
"I guess I'll be on my way too then, I'll see you tomorrow Lu-chan!" she waved as she followed Laki.
"Levy wait!"
Levy and Laki stopped and turned to Lucy. "huh? What is it Lu-chan?"
"Natsu told you to come to me right?" she asked with pinkish cheeks.
Laki and Levy looked at each other for a second, then look back to her. "yeah, why?"
Lucy started to fidget a little. "nothing much.. I just wanna know why he didn't c-come here with you." she asked face flushed.
Levy put her finger on her chin. "hmmm.. he told us that he was going back home for now, probably still tired from his job with Juvia. And he also said that he doesn't want to disturb us."
Lucy looked down. "oh.. so he's not gonna sleep here tonight then." she said in a very low and sad tone.
Levy looked at her with worry. "Lu-chan.. you ok?"
Lucy forced a smile "y-yeah..! I'm fine." She let out a fake laugh.
"ok then.. we'll be going now." Levy and Laki waved and left her room.
As the two guest had already left, Lucy closed her door and rested her back on it. She looked up and let out a heavy sigh.
~evening at Natsu and Happy's house~
"man.. it's good to be back home" Natsu said as he stretched his arms.
"Natshu.. let's eat dinner!" Happy requested.
"just a minute buddy, I'm just gonna put these pictures on my memory wall."
"aye.." Happy flew to the table to wait, he then noticed something on the table.
"um.. Natshu?"
"hmm?" Natsu asked while pinning the pictures on the wall.
"you might wanna take a look at this."
Natsu sighed. "fine.." he walked to Happy's direction. "what is it?"
Happy showed him a paper, Natsu's eyes widen and immediately grabbed the paper from Happy's paws.
"we must find Levy and Laki, quick!"
"huh?" Happy didn't get the time to ask as Natsu suddenly grabbed him and sprinted out of their house.
"Natshu?! Where are we going?!"
Natsu ignored Happy and kept on running, his face was in complete seriousness.
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~night at Lucy's room~
Lucy stepped out of the bathroom wearing only a towel. "looks like it's just me tonight." She said to herself while drying her hair with a lacrima powered hair blower.
"Luce!" a sudden voice called from her back.
"KYAAAA!!" Lucy quickly threw the hair blower to the unknown intruder.
*thud*
"ow! Geez Luce! Calm down, it's just me!"
"Natsu?" Lucy quickly ran to him, she placed her hands on his cheeks "I'm sorry! Are you ok? Does anything hurt?" she asked in worry. "you shouldn't have startled me like that, now look what have I done to you!" she lightly scolded the pyro.
"violent Lushy!" Happy teased.
"shut up cat!"
Natsu gently removed her hands. "I'm fine, where's Levy and Laki?"
"they already left, why? What's happening?"
"no time to explain, I need to talk to them quick!" Natsu was about to go and jump on the window but Lucy stopped him by hugging his left arm.
"wait! I'm coming with you!"
Natsu looked at her up and down. "you'll go out like that?"
Lucy looked down and instantly blushed hard as she was currently hugging Natsu's arm between her breast that are barely hidden by her tight towel. She quickly let go of his arm and ran fast to her cabinet to find clothes.
Happy snickered. "pfft! Pervy Lushy!"
"I said shut up!" she then turned to Natsu.
"I'm gonna change real quick, so can you turn around?" she asked still blushing.
Natsu did what she requested. *sigh* "fine.. but you gotta hurry."
A few minutes later and Lucy was done changing. "ok I'm all done now."
"finally!" Natsu turn around and saw Lucy wearing a blue collared white blouse and a dark blue skirt.
"well?" she asked.
Natsu raised an eyebrow. "well.. what?" Lucy pouted at him.
Natsu sighed. "fine! You look cute, now let's go!" He grabbed Lucy's hand and lift her up to carry her princess style.
Lucy blushed harder to the point that her face matches Erza's hair color. "H-Hey! W-W-What do you think your doing?!"
"lets go Happy!"
"Aye sir!"
"hey! Wait a minute!"
Natsu ignored her and jump through the window.
"KIYAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!"
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~Fairy tail guild hall~
"hmm? You want me to give you a tour on every bar in this town?" Cana asked.
Laki nodded her head. "yes, Lucy said that my father's friend runs a small bar somewhere here in Magnolia."
"please Cana!" Kinana pleaded for her friend.
Cana chugged a barrel of beer before giving them her answer. "It's no problem for me but.. what if your old man's friend or his bar wasn't here anymore? I mean Natsu and Lucy met this guy 7 years ago so.."
Laki eyed the floor. "I know what you mean, but this is the only lead that I have. If I don't try this plan out, then I don't know what to do."
Kinana gave Laki a light hug. "we'll find him, I promise." Laki smiled and nods her head.
*SLAM!*
Natsu kicked the guild doors open, he entered the hall with Lucy and Happy following him from behind. Natsu looked around and spotted Laki, and he immediately ran to her.
"Laki! Where's Levy?"
Laki turned to him. "she already went back to the dorm, why?"
"I'll explain later, lets go get her right now!" Natsu grabbed her hand and tried to dragged her, but Laki pulled him back.
"wait! You cant go there, that's a girls dorm. Why are you in such a hurry anyway?"
Natsu looked at her straight in the eyes. "your dad broke-in into my house earlier."
Laki's eyes widen, she pulled Natsu by his scarf to confront him face to face. "really?! Where is he now?!"
Natsu pulled his scarf back. "I don't know.. He was long gone when I got home, he probably broke-in this morning."
"which means.. he's just around town!" Cana stated.
Kinana beamed at Laki. "isn't that great Laki?! Your chances of seeing him is getting higher!" Laki happily nods her head. "mm!"
"not only that.." Natsu pulled out a paper from his pocket. "he left me a little note." He showed them the paper.
Laki took and examined the paper. "what is this? I cant understand what's written in here."
"me neither." Kinana added.
"Aye! that's because it's written in another language called draconic." Happy proudly answered for Natsu.
"huh?" Kinana and Laki asked in unison.
"wait.. how can you tell that it was Laki's old man that left you this note if you cant even read it?" Cana curiously asked.
Natsu sighed, he pulled out another paper and show it to them. "this is the paper that he gave me when Lucy and I first met him."
Lucy grabbed the paper from Natsu and placed it beside the paper that Laki was holding. "the hand writing matches." She stated.
Natsu nodded. "I already know what the first note say's, cause I had Levy to translate it for me."
Kinana gasped. "so that's why you wanted to see her in such a rush."
Laki turned to Natsu. "did the first note said anything about him or his whereabouts?"
Natsu shakes his head. "no, it only informs me about dragon slayer magic."
Lucy focused her eyes at the notes. "hmm.."
Natsu turned to Lucy. "what's wrong Luce?"
Lucy looked back at Natsu. "well it's just that.. I found this kinda weird." All of them eyed her. "just think about it.. he gave Natsu a note, and 7 years later.. he broke-in in Natsu's house to leave another one. Isn't it strange?"
Kinana placed her hand on her mouth. "Lucy does have a point, it is kind of weird."
Natsu walked to the direction of the guild doors, but stopped midway. "I already thought about that. I have so many questions too, like: how did he found out where I live?, why is he giving me these notes?, and what the hell is this Balance Breaker thing about? I want to learn more about it cause it might get me stronger, for I have a special task that I assigned for myself. But that doesn't matter for now, cause right now our main priority is for him and Laki to meet up and reunite as a family."
Laki watched him with awe. 'Natsu..' small tint of redness unintentionally appeared on her cheeks.
Lucy let out a loving smile as she stared at him. 'there he goes again.. being the selfless idiot that he will always be.'
Natsu turned around to face them. "we can only get our answers if we asked him personally, so for now lets go to Levy and ask for her help about this new note that we have, and hope that this note contains some information about Laki's dad."
Laki smiled warmly at him. "ok! Let's go and give Levy a visit."
Happy raised his paw. "Natshu.. can I stay and eat my dinner here? I'm really starving."
Natsu sighed. "fine.. anyone else? how about you Luce?"
Lucy winked at him. "of course I'll go!"
"I'm gonna stay, I still need to help Mira on manning the bar." Kinana informed.
"I think I'm good here." Cana said before chugging her barrel of beer.
Natsu punched through the air. "yosh! Lets go!"
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~Fairy hills gate entrance~
The three mages stood in front of the gate to make a plan.
"Lucy and I will go in and get Levy while you wait here, ok?"
"cant I just sneak in there? I already did it once."
Laki sighed. "you cant Natsu, Erza has a patrolling duty in the dorm every night. And you know how strict she is when it comes to rules."
"yeah, she will kill you instantly if she found you strolling around there." Lucy playfully added.
"fine!" Natsu grumbled.
Laki looked at him seriously. "umm.. Natsu?"
"yeah?"
Laki stared to the side then looked down. "t-thanks by the way." Her face is starting to turn pinkish.
Natsu grinned at her. "no problem!"
Lucy frowned a little at them.
Laki positioned her glasses. "right so we're good then." She said way too fast. "lets go Lucy."
"I'll be with you in a minute" Lucy then turned to Natsu. "about what you said earlier.. what is that special task that you were talking about?"
Natsu just smiled at her. "I cant tell you for now, but all I can say is that you don't have to worry about anything."
Lucy raised an eyebrow. "well I'm worried about you now.. whatever you were up to, I know you can do it! cause I have complete faith In you. Later!" She waved before following Laki inside.
Natsu looked at her backside, his eyes filled with determination. 'don't worry Luce, I wont let you guys down. I will defeat Acnologia whatever it takes.'
~Juvia's room~
Juvia was currently sitting on the side of her bed while looking at her personal chibi Gray plushy with worried eyes. 'what should Juvia do? She knows that Gray-sama is the one for her but.. whenever Juvia thinks about Natsu-kun, her chest feels so tight that it wants to burst out.' she let out a long sigh. Juvia stood up from her bed and placed her chibi Gray plushy on top of her small drawer, she then went to her window to open it and get some fresh air. As she opened her window, She immediately spotted someone standing at the gate entrance. When she got a better look on who's standing there… Her eyes got widen like plates when she noticed that it was actually Natsu who is standing there while crossing his arms. Juvia quickly ducked down to hide herself. "w-w-why is Natsu-kun here?" she asked herself while holding her pinkish cheeks. She then suddenly gasped. "is he here f-f-for Juvia?!" Juvia rapidly shakes her head. 'NO NO NO NO NO!' Juvia slowly move up to peek from her window. "it looks like Natsu-kun is waiting for someone." Juvia went down and sat on the floor to think for a moment. 'maybe he's here to fetch Levy-san? but Levy-san had already met up with him earlier.' She hugged her knees and bit her lip.
'what should Juvia do?'
~back to Natsu~
"man.. what's taking them so long?"
Natsu then noticed that the door was slowly opening. "huh?" he perked up when he saw Juvia coming out from the door.
A bright light bulb suddenly appeared just above Natsu's head. The pyro grinned widely as he came up with another stupendous idea.
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Juvia walked out from the dorm while wearing a winter style dress. 'Juvia was just going to ask Natsu-kun on what business does he have in here, nothing more.'
"Juvia!"
Juvia snapped out of her thoughts when she heard someone calling her. She saw Natsu running towards her in slow motion with sparkling butterflies around him -in her own point of view-.
Natsu stooped in front of her and quickly held both of her hands. He stared at Juvias sparkling blue eyes.
"Juvia.. I need you." He said in a very sexy voice -in Juvia's point of view-.
Juvia blushes. "N-Natsu-kun?" she quickly retracted her hands and turned her back on him. "b-but Natu-kun.. Gray-sama was.."
Natsu suddenly turns her back to him and placed both of his hands on her shoulders. "who gives a shit about that stripper?!" he then eyed Juvia lovingly -in Juvia's own point of view again-. "I want you." He said as His face was starting to get closer and closer to Juvia's.
Juvia's cheeks are tainted with red as she stared at his onyx orbs with her own sparkling blue ones.
"Natsu… kun." She closes her eyes and formed her lips to prepare for what was bound to happen.
Then…
"I want you to distract Erza while I sneak in to Levy's room." Natsu whispered to her right ear.
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*cricket sound*
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Juvia opened her eyes. "eh?"
Natsu took a step back and grinned at her.
Juvia grew a thick mark on her forehead while shakenly clenching her fists.
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"so Natsu got a new draconic note from your father huh?" Levy asked.
Laki nodded. "he broke-in at Natsu's house this morning."
Lucy puts her finger on her chin. "I wonder what was written on that note."
The trio was now walking on the hall way after picking Levy. Moments later.. they spotted the front door and noticed that it was already opened. As they got outside, they were greeted by a knockout Natsu who had a fist mark on his left cheek, and a red faced fuming Juvia who just walked past them and went back inside the dorm building.
The trio sweatdropped at the scene.
"what the hell happened here?" Levy asked.
Lucy sighed and looked down at Natsu's half dead body. "judging by the way it looks.. this idiot probably did something stupid again."
"so what do we do? We cant just leave him out here." Laki asked while poking Natsu's body with a stick.
"lets just wake him up." Levy advised.
Laki fixed up her glasses. "leave it to me!" she formed her hands to make a magic circle.
"Wood Make: The Cry of Despair"
Giant wooden fists suddenly appeared below Natsu and punched him up through the air.
'what kind of an attack name was that?' Levy and Lucy thought with a sweatdropped.
"WAAAAAH!" Natsu screamed in pain before falling back down.
*thud!*
"ow! You could have woke me up in a regular way you know!" he protested while scratching his butt.
The three girls just laughed at him.
"anyways.. Natsu, can I have the paper now?" Levy requested. Natsu took the paper out from his pocket and handed it to Levy.
"thanks! I'll try to finish this as fast as I can." Levy then started his translation work while the other three waits patiently.
After a few hours, Levy had finished translating the note. "all done!"
Laki, Lucy, and Natsu quickly went beside her. "what does it say?" Lucy asked.
Levy cleared her throat. " ride the ocean star and Sandersonna can be reached, for that is a place where your Dragon Sense will awake " she finished reading.
Natsu scratched his head. "what does that mean?"
Lucy made a thinking pose. "I think he wants you to go to this Sandersonna place."
Laki gasped. "do you think that he could be waiting for Natsu in there?"
Levy puts her thumb under her chin. "its possible.. also he mentioned the word Dragon sense, which is the tittle of the book that Natsu found at the Magic library."
"maybe you should bring that book with you, if you want to go to that place." Lucy advised.
Natsu bumped his fists together. "yosh! Then its settled, we're going to Sandersonna tomorrow! Laki you coming or what?"
Laki nodded her head. "I'll go tell Cana and Kinana to postpone our bar hunting for tomorrow."
Lucy excitedly raised her hand. "I'll go too! I don't want to be left out again."
Natsu nods his head and turned to Levy. "what about you?"
Levy smiled. "I would loved to go with you but.. do we even know where this Sandersonna place is located to?" Natsu, Laki, and Lucy dropped their excitement at her question.
"you are just wasting your time."
The four mages turned their heads and found Erza, standing while arms crossed at the dorms front door.
"Sandersonna was long gone."
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Annnd that's it for chapter 7! What do you think will happen next? You wanna know? Then wait for chapter 8. Also.. I need 3 more Laki: yes comments, to commence my plans for her of how she will be added in the harem. That's it for now, bye!
