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*Lisanna's p.o.v* three weeks later. 10 am
Everything was mostly back to normal in the guild these days except for two things; one my matchmaking plan had taken a slight shift in who I was pairing up with who, and two; Bixlow and I had decided to be together for real instead of just deceiving our family. It had turned out that the soul mage had, had a crush on me for a while himself and had been planning to ask Freed to help him with a set up of his own, us. For me it had been that kiss we'd shared and the events around Natsu's confession that had opened my eyes to the fact that what I had been feeling for Bixlow were romantic feelings. Though we had both been a little nervous about becoming an official couple, due to fearing it would mess up our friendship.
To be honest though our fears turned out to be unfounded as hardly anything was different to how we usual were around each other and it made everything so much easier, but when we kissed boy does it feel different to just being friends...In a good way though. A very good way!
Elfman hadn't been too pleased about the fact that his little sister had a boyfriend or that she'd kissed him in front of the entire guild before telling her blood relatives, but that's what happens when you're out on jobs so often. I hadn't had chance to tell Mira-nee just yet but considering that when she'd walking into the guild earlier this morning to find me sat on Bixlow's lap, as I was telling him about something mundane. I think she knew that there was something going on between us and her squeal was another indicator that she didn't disapprove. So now all I had to do is tell her in detail when she returned to the guild later after taking a shower and resting a little and all would be well with the world.
"Good morning Lisanna-san," Wendy said to me as she sat down at her usual table and pulled out a book.
"Morning Wendy, what can I get you?" I asked giving the younger girl a smile as I walked over to take her order.
"The dragon slayer special please," She asked looking up with a shy smile.
"Training again today?" I asked turning around so I could return to behind the bar, to start getting everything sorted that I would need to make her breakfast. It was a large item she's ordered.
"Yeah Romeo-kun and I have a double training session today," She nervously answered me, looking back down at her book, but not before I noticed her blush creeping across her pale cheeks.
"Ohhhh double training hey," I teased the girl, as I went into the kitchen to put on the food.
"It's nothing like what you're thinking Lisanna-san!" Wendy called after me only confirming my suspicions that the healer was in love with mini-Natsu.
"What's nothing like what Lisanna is thinking?" Came the deep tone of Gray. Guess he'd arrived early today but that is unusual for him.
"Oh you know just that Wendy has a thing for Romeo," I giggled coming back out to watch the scene unfold for myself and I seriously wanted to laugh out loud, at how red Wendy was going.
"Really? Wow Romeo's a lucky guy," Gray winked sinking into the seat next to Wendy and ruffling her hair to let her know he was joking.
"Want anything Gray?" I asked, seeing as I should get back into the kitchen so nothing would burn.
"Yeah a full breakfast please, Lisanna." He replied, somehow managing to lose his shirt in the process.
"Coming up," I shouted as I re entered the kitchen. I have most of the food options precooked by the time, the members arrived so that it only takes me half as long to get everything done. A tip I had picked up from Edo-Mira that came in extremely handy here too!
"One dragon slayer special and one full breakfast," I smiled setting the plates down in front of Wendy and Gray. Seeing that nobody else in the guild needed anything I decided to take a short break and chat to the two sat in front of me.
"So Wendy spill all about this double date of yours," I winked playfully as Wendy almost choked on her breakfast.
"There's nothing to spill Lisanna-san," Wendy mumbled not looking away from her food. "It's just that Romeo-kun overheard me ask Natsu-san to help me with training my slayer magic and he asked if he could help too, but then Natsu-san suggested that Romeo-kun practice with Gray and so we decided to train together." Wendy blushed.
"Ah so that's why you ordered the special, you don't usually eat as much as the other 3," I said turning my attention to Gray to see what he had to say about helping Natsu train Wendy and Romeo.
"Not like I had anything else to do, what with Gramps giving the guild the entire week off." Gray muttered with a mouth full of food.
"Gray your clothes," I sighed as it came to my attention that his pants had just gone flying across the room.
"Gah how did that happen." Gray abandoned his food for the moment to go retrieve his pants.
"You know Wendy I think Romeo likes you as more than a friend too," I said getting up to go service Levy and Juvia who had just entered the guild hall. Wendy only continued to eat and didn't reply to my statement. Oh well at least I'd tried to convince her to purse the young fire mage, if she didn't I had just the ruin trap for her and Romeo to stumble into at some point soon.
"Hey guys, what can I get cha this morning," I smiled at my friends who were sat in their usual seats.
"Juvia would like the fruit salad please," Juvia replied giving me a small good morning smile.
"Yeah same for me please and can we have a dragon slayer special for Gajeel," Levy beamed. This was interesting!
"Oh Gajeel will be joining you will he?" I giggled, enjoying how easy it was to fluster the girls in this place. Levy nodded her head and Juvia just continued to smile. "Well it'll be ready in a jiffy."
As I made my way back to sort out the food I saw Kinana arrive to start her shift, as well as Natsu and Romeo going to sit with their training partners of the day.
"Guys what do you want?" I shouted from the kitchen doors seeing as I was already going there may as well get some more orders in.
"What Wendy's having," Natsu chirped not looking at me, guess he's still licking his wounds about Bixlow and myself. Get over it man it's been almost a month now!
"Same as Gray-nii," Romeo shouted at me giving me a friendly hello kind of smile. Aww that boy is just so cute! I nodded and turned to set about my usual routine, chat, cook and meddle!
*Wendy's p.o.v*
I wasn't going to let Lisanna-san's words shake me. I couldn't! I had to be in top form today because I really wanted to impress everyone with the amount of progress I'd been making in both my healing and fighting abilities. I had come to not hate fighting lately, I still didn't get the same enjoyment out of it that the other slayers did but I was learning that it was something I needed to get better at, so that I too could be of use to my teammates in battle and not just be a support to them. Also secretly I wanted to show Romeo-kun just how much I had improved so that he would notice me, despite what Lisanna-san had hinted at, I didn't really believe what she'd said. Romeo-kun obviously didn't like me as more than a friend but maybe if I could draw with Natsu-san today then I could impress him enough to become interested in me like the way I was in him.
"We're back everyone," Came two familiar voices from the doorway, I looked up to see a very battered and bruised Bisca and Alzack.
"Let me heal you," I shrieked rushing over to the two gun's mages. "What on earthland happened to you?"
"The mission went wrong," Al wheezed as he helped Bisca into a nearby chair where I started to heal her immediately. Luckily the only major damage either had suffered were multiple fractures and one or two serious breaks, it could have been much worse. Once I'd healed them I stood up and wiped my forehead, which was a habit of mine now, not really because it drained me as much as it once had, but to notify the entire guild silently watching me work my magic that I was finished and that they could stop worrying.
"You really are amazing Wendy," Romeo beamed at me from his seat at the table I had left...He just called me by my name without a nee or a san at the end. I felt the blood rush to my cheeks and my heart beat kick up a notch causing Natsu to look at me funnily.
"Hmm...I guess...maybe a little," I stuttered pulling my hand up to cover my mouth.
"Yeah you are Wendy and Thank you very much for healing us," Bisca said patting me on the top of my head.
"Is Asuka here yet?" Al asked looking around the guild for his daughter.
"Erm she's still at Lucy-san's apartment they should be here anytime now though," I turned to explain to the couple behind me thinking if I should warn them about how the little girl was very attached to my teammate. Well I mean she had been living with her for a while now.
"Okay so we have time to report to master and grab some food then," Bisca beamed heading towards the stairs followed by Al. Erm shouldn't they be rushing to see their child that they hadn't seen in just over 2 months? Oh well it wasn't my place to tell them what to do.
"Erm Natsu-san are you ready to start training yet?" I asked turning to see the older dragon had already finished his food and was starting an insult contest with Gray. He was either ignoring me or hadn't heard me as he didn't respond. "NATSU-SAN!"
"Waa...Did you say something Wendy?" He turned to me and I felt myself sweat drop at how child like he was.
"She asked if you were ready to start Natsu-nii," Romeo spoke up walking over to me by the guild doors showing that he was ready to start too.
"I'm always ready for a fight," Natsu exclaimed pumping his fist in the air. Gray simply stood up and sauntered over to stand beside Romeo-kun and myself. Remind me next time to ask Gajeel-san or Laxus-san to help me I was starting to regret asking Natsu-san as I doubted he'd remember this was training and go all out on me...seeing as I can't heal myself that could cause some problems. I gulped and felt a hand rest on my shoulder in a reassuring gesture I looked up and immediately blushed as I saw who the arm belonged to...Romeo-kun.
"No worries if Natsu-nii gets too out of hand I'll save you," He smiled at me. Could he get any sweeter? I felt my heart go into overdrive at this gesture causing Natsu-san to turn his attention back to see what was wrong and seeing the sight before him he hide a small smile from me. Not very well I might add, before turning back round and exiting the guild to head to our training area that was just off the track at the edge of town. Okay time to calm down and show Romeo-kun just what I could do!
-time skip to during training-
"Talons of the sky dragon," I yelled slashing at Natsu-san, who dodged to the side avoiding my attack. This was starting to get frustrating I couldn't land a single attack, he just kept dodging them...only one thing for it I guess.
"Is that really all you've got Wendy?" Natsu goaded me, and it was working I couldn't look weak in front of Romeo-kun.
"Okay here I go Natsu-san." I gritted my teeth and started to pull in the surrounding air to increase my magical strength. I only had one shot at this and I had to make it count.
"Secret dragon slayer art: Shattering light skydrill," I shouted as the air barrier trapped Natsu-san so he couldn't escape from my attack. Just as I let lose the sky drill I felt my blood run cold at the words that left Natu-san's mouth.
"Secret dragon slayer art: Exploding crimson blade," He yelled letting his own secret dragon slayer art lose, the two attacks collided causing a large blast wave to engulf us. As I waited for the dust to settle I smelled Natsu-san charging at me...how did he have any energy left after all this time?
"Fire dragon wing attack," He called jumping through the smoke, if I hadn't have smelled him coming and dodged to the side at the last second, I would have taken a direct hit. I slid out from the dust cloud that our battle had created and noticed that Gray-san and Romeo-kun had completely stopped their own training and were watching us with wide eyes and open mouths. I felt my second wind rising, I had surprised Romeo-kun. He was impressed with my battle abilities or at least I hoped he was.
"Sky dragon's roar," I let my breath attack fly into the dust cloud and heard a loud grunt as it connected with Natsu-san. But I was exhausted now, that attack had used the last of my magic power. I sank to me knees panting heavily watching as the dust cloud vanished to reveal Natsu-san charging towards me with a fire dragon claw at the ready. He noticed that I was down, drained with no fight left, but he was already to close to stop or divert his attack, it was going to hit. I closed my eyes and brought my arms up above my face, awaiting the inevitable rush of pain and damage that the attack would inflict, but it never came. That's odd I thought as I opened my eyes to see what was going on only to get the surprise of my life. Romeo-kun was stood with his back to Natsu-san his arms stretched wide in a defensive stance to keep me protected and behind him was an Ice shield.
"I said I'd save you didn't I?" He whispered looking down at me. I felt tears welling up in my eyes at Romeo-kun's kind action and found just enough energy to fling myself into his chest and wrap my arms around his neck giving him a hug. He stiffened in surprise for a moment before wrapping his arms around my waist so as to return my hug.
"Thank you, you really keep your word, You protected me." I cried into his shoulder. His arms tightened around me at my words, his face turning into my neck.
"Anything for you Wendy," He barely whispered into my ear so that Natsu-san wouldn't hear. My heart seemed to explode, the second those words registered in my brain, making me feel completely safe and secure in Romeo-kuns arms. I didn't say anything else, I just continued to hug him and cry into his shoulder, but one thought did cross my mind, Lisanna-san had been right!