What's this? An update after 7 years of nothing?! More likely than you think.
Hello void, it's been fuckin forever! Man! It's kinda nice to be back on this site after so long! It's oddly nostalgic lol, anyway I figured 'if after 7 years you still haven't touched this story it's time to just let it go' so here I am! Posting it into the void so that it's not just sitting in my google docs collecting dust.
Fair warning for anybody who might read this: I haven't read a single word of these docs in 7 years, I haven't even proofed or edited them. with that said I unleash you into the chapter, good luck!
Chapter 2
Lucy's POV
It took me two weeks to heal completely, but I'm all better. We were planning on leaving tomorrow, so me and Yukino are gonna go shopping, that way we have clothes for training. I'm glad Yukino is coming with me. I changed into the clothes that I came here in and waited in the living room for Yukino. I walked to the couch and sat down, from the corner of my eye I saw Rogue and Fro enter the room as well. "Hey, Lucy are you gonna be gone long?" "Um, I don't know Rogue we'll try and make it back before dark though, so we can rest and all." He came and sat on the couch with me, Fro followed Rogue everywhere I thought it was the cutest thing ever. He nodded and turned on the lacrima screen. He put on the news but nothing interesting was going on.
A few minutes later the doorbell rang, I got up and opened it. "Yukino! Let me grab my jewels and we can go." I said, I went up to the guest room and grabbed my wallet and put it in my pocket. I walked down the stairs and to the door, when I got to the door I said "Bye guys, see you in a bit." And closed the door behind me.
We walked around town talking about anything that came to mind. We finally found a store that caught our eye and went in. "Hello and welcome to Angel's & Demons!" The cash register lady said as she smiled at us. We nodded and walked closer to the clothes. On the left side of the store there were darkish looking clothes and on the right there were really bright looking clothes, we figured the left side was for Demons and the right side was for Angels. I went to the demons area and Yukino went to the angels area then after we got some clothes we switched places so I was in the angels and Yukino in the demons. We paid for our clothes and bid the register lady good bye. We walked to a fruit stand in a nearby park and ordered some strawberries then sat down at a bench to eat some. After eating we went to a few more stores and went home.
We arrived at the house and went in "Sting, Rogue we're back!" I yelled "Hey Blondie!" "Don't call me Blondie, your blonde too!" I yelled as he came from the living room. I sighed "Anyway, Sting where were you today, you were gone when I woke up and I woke up pretty darn early!" He laughed "I went to Sabertooth and took a small job so we have some more jewels to spend if we needed it" I made an 'o' with my mouth and said "Well can you help us out with our bags?" And as if on cue Rogue appears and helps Yukino. Sting and Lector helped carry my bags up the stairs. As soon as we placed the bags down I fell on the bed with Lector laying on my stomach. Sting sat on the foot of the bed telling me about his mission and Lector leaving a few 'Sting is the best!' comments. I laughed when Sting told me the old lady he was working for smacked him on the head every time he did something wrong. After he was done telling me what happened we went down stairs for dinner that Rogue made.
There was a large round table with six plates set out. Yukino, Rogue and Fro were already seated. I took the seat next to Yukino, Lector sat next to me and Sting sat next to Rogue. "Whash storsh dish you guysh go too"(what stores did you guys go too) jeez he needs to learn some manners! "Sting! Don't talk with your mouth full you'll choke!" Since I was yelling at Sting, Yukino answered. "We went to the store Angels & Demons, and a few others that I don't remember." I nodded "I really liked that store it was so cool on the left side of the store was like dark looking clothes and the other side had summer looking clothes." I said after we all finished we went to the living room.
Sting walked over and sat on the right side of the couch, I sat next to him then Lector sat on my lap Yukino sat next to me and Rogue next to her with Fro sprawled out on both their laps. Sting turned on the lacrima screen "Hey do you guys wanna watch a movie?" Yukino asked we nodded Sting put on a movie. "What are we watching Sting?" I asked "The Forest! It's a new scary movie I've been wanting to see!" He said with a grin on his face. 'Oh no, not a scary movie!' "Sting I do bad with movies like that!" Yukino and I said. He chuckled "Don't worry girls you got Rogue and I if you get scared, right Rogue?" We looked to Rogue and he nodded. We sighed and figured we'd trust them. I got up and grabbed a big blanket from the closet in the hall and walked over to the couch, then spread it out, so it could cover us all. The movie started and Yukino and I screamed when the girl got pulled into the river. "Man, stop screaming!" Sting said as he pulled me into his side, I looked over and saw Rogue pulling Yukino into his chest saying she was going to be ok. I blushed a bright red and pulled the blanket up to cover it. I heard Sting chuckle, then he pinched my cheek and said "Why you blushing for Blondie?" He was teasing me! "Sting let go." "Sorry Blondie but no can do. If I did let go, you and Yukino would run away and not finish the movie." I sighed and said "fine" I relaxed in his arms and continued watching the movie.
Sting's POV
I smirked, she was such a scardy cat. I got an idea, my smirk got even bigger when we saw that ghost dude again I slowly walked my fingers on her neck, she got tense, I leaned toward her ear and said "Boo!" She jumped and screamed again even Yukino got scared. I laughed as they pouted. "Che" 'uh oh she's mad at me now' I looked to Rogue for help but he shook his head and turned to Yukino. I sighed "Hey Blondie don't be mad" I said as I put my head on her shoulder "Why should I not be mad?" I pulled her closer to me so she couldn't escape. "Well because I only wanted to have some fun now look at me." She hummed while thinking of something "Only if you say sorry." From what I could see of her face she had a small smile. I sighed 'This was going to hurt my pride' "ok i-i'm s-sssorry. Whew that hurt my pride so you better be happy" I said she laughed and looked at me then we all started to watch the movie. My mind started to wonder when there wasn't as much action going on. Blondie's smiles still didn't quit light up. Her eyes are what worry me most. I wish I couldn't see what she remembers in them. There big honest brown eyes but since they're so honest you can pretty much see what she's thinking about. Last Wednesday though was pretty bad.
Flashback
It was around midnight I had gotten up to get a drink, I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a water bottle. I sat down and continued drinking my water till it was gone. I crumpled it then threw it in the recycling can. As I was starting to get out of the chair I heard noises from Lucy's room. I ran up to her room as fast as I could, thinking 'is someone trying to get in!?' I opened her door and found her crying in her sleep thrashing around on the bed. I closed the door behind me then slowly walked to the bed. I sat down next to her and held her in my arms till she stopped hitting me. "Lucy, hey Lucy wake up." she started to stir so I let go of her. "S-Sting?" she said between the hic ups. She had tear stains on her face so I wiped them away. "Yeah its me. Are you ok Lucy, what was your dream about?" I asked but instantly regretted it. Her eyes had a far away look in them when I stared into them it was like I could see everything she thought of. Alarmed I quickly pulled her into a hug and said "You don't have to tell me about it, but tell me if you're going to be alright." She nodded and said she would be fine and kept on apologising for no reason. After she seemed like she was going to be ok I took that as my cue to go, so I stood and was about to go when Lucy said "Sting can you stay till I fall asleep?" I nodded and she scooted over so I could sit on the bed. A while later she was asleep and I left her room to go to my own.
End of Flashback
"-ing?" Huh? "Sting! Sting are you ok you were spacing out there." Oh Lucy was talking to me. "Hmm yeah I'm fine let's just watch the movie." We turned to the scream and eventually we all fell asleep on the couch.
Time Skip(morning)
I opened my eyes and saw Lucy's face. I looked at her sleeping form she had long dark eyelashes and her golden tangled hair spilled out around her face. Her cheeks were a little pink. Ow I became painfully aware that Rogue and Yukino are here too and there heavy! "Hey! Guys wake up your lazy butts! You're crushing me!" My yelling must have scared them or something because they all jumped and fell of the couch. How did we even all fit?! Rogue was the first to get up. Man Rogue looks mad! "Sting are you an idiot? Why would you yell so early in the morning? Wait weren't we supposed to leave today?" despite his effort no one paid attention to him "Jeez Sting don't yell so loud in the morning!" Blondie said as she stood from the floor. She turned away from me to help Yukino off the floor who was very angry. "Sting." I gulped "Yeah Yukino?" I looked to my right to see Blondie and Rogue snickering. "Don't ever wake me up like that again or else you won't see the light of day ever again." S-scary! "Okay Yukino!" I got off the couch and said "Well now that, that is over I think we should go pack we leave today" they nodded and we went our separate ways.
Rogue's POV
I packed my clothes into a grey traveling bag and my books on magic and history in a faded red backpack. I walked to my desk and picked up a camera I haven't used since I joined Sabertooth. I grabbed it and put it in my book bag. Maybe it'll come in handy. I grabbed my two bags and walked out to the front door where Lucy was, holding a book? I didn't ask about it but instead just waited for the rest. I noticed she had two big bags one a worn out pink and another brown, then the small bag she came here with. She was looking through the book in her hand. She looked up at me and asked "Rogue is that all your bringing?" Her eyes were still that dull brown, her eyes hold pain she won't let others see, but she's bad at hiding it. "Hn." "Hmm ok Rogue." Sting came down the stairs with Yukino. Yukino had Sting holding her bags I thought it was a fitting punishment for Sting since he woke us up like that.
When they were at the door we opened it and left to the Dark Age forest. "Hey the forest were going to what's it called again?" Lucy asked, Sting answered when Yukino and I didn't. "It's called the Dark Age forest."
"Why is it called that?" I answered her this time.
"Its because two Dragon Kings battled there. The Dragon of Life, Seikatsu and the Dragon of Death, Shi were fighting over Earthland because they both wanted to rule over it. This was a long time ago but it destroyed a big area of the forest. The people that were alive back then called it Dark Age forest because they believed fights between dragons involved dark reasons and the Age in the title was because the dragons were ancient." I finished. They all looked at me as if I was the most amazing thing in the world. "What is it?" They snapped out of there daze like state and at the same time said "You spoke for more than two minutes!" I nodded and looked away from them as we arrived at the outskirts of the forest. "We're here!" Sting shouted. "Well then what are we waiting for let's go!" Lucy said and walked in. We followed shortly after.
