CH 2. A step towards to you.
This is the corrected chapter thank you to the BETA reader DeyoChan :)
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Lucy woke up when the radiant sun passed through the window curtains.
She stretches her limbs, rubbing her eyes in order to get them ready for the beautiful day's blinding light.
At the end of her bed was the clothing she intended to wear before going to the mission assigned to them by their Master Makarov.
If she were honest with herself Lucy was a bit frightened and nervous. Three months with the cocky, arrogant and perverted lightning-man would be her worst nightmare.
Laxus was one of the most powerful Mage among Fairy Tail and if he tried to force her to do whatever he wanted, she wouldn't be able to defend herself. Laxus wouldn't be so stupid to mess with her, she had her back covered: Lucy was friends with Celestial Spirit King and all his spirits. She was sure that those spirits will protect her if necessary.
"Hmm," Lucy sighed, "I wonder how bad this mission could go. I just hope Laxus to behave himself. I don't want to deal with the lack of respect he has for his Nakama. Stupid thunder butt…" She muttered to herself.
'Ugh, well done, Lucy. Now you're the one who has no respect for him'. She thought, frustrated. 'This's gonna be a very long trip and not because it is a three month mission. I have to be with him, that's the whole problem'.
The train will depart for Oshibana city. Subsequently, they will need to travel to Wass Forest, making a stop at Shirotsume to buy some supplies. From there, they will have only two days to go to the mission's target. However, to get there, they must have to go through the highest snowy mountains. 'Lucky Lucy, my butt' She whined.
She took a look at her keys seeing that Horologium pointed at 6.00 in the morning. As she doesn't have to be at the station until the 9:00, she got up from the bed with no hurry picking up the clothes from her bed and went to the bathroom.
She left the hot water running filling up the tube looking at herself in the mirror. 'Why he doesn't care to go on a mission with me? Laxus is believed to be a lonely Mage, and he usually goes on solo missions. It agitates me that he wanted me to go with him by only being a celestial Mage, however, I couldn't stop thinking that Mirajane or even Cana could do better than me on the mission.' She thought.
'I know they are much more of a woman in all senses. Laxus it's just a perverted asshole. I don't think he would've refused to take this three month mission with either Mira or Cana. Although, I have no option than to go on that mission with him. I don't care if Laxus agrees or not. This job has got to be done.'
Lucy pours the liquid soap in the bathtub, which was already full of hot water, the water soon turned into a bright pink colored and smelly Sakura flowered liquid. 'There's nothing like a relaxing bath…I wonder when I will able to do this again'. She wondered while getting into water laying her back into the wall for support.
She spent a good measure of time washing carefully her hair, massaging it. She wanted to cleanse herself of the dirt that yesterday she had accumulated in the Guild. With all those fights their friends were performing each day, it was impossible to not get dirty.
The bath had done its job with the celestial blonde mage. When she saw herself in the mirror again, she noticed that her face was more relaxed and her expressive eyes had their especial brightness back.
"Horologium says that it was 7.00 am. Well, I still have time for breakfast, get dressed and finish packing." Lucy said to herself placing her hand beneath her chin thinking about what she must do from now on.
The mission will be taking place in a very cold place. Thus, Lucy grabs a top winter shirt to try to keep some warm during the travel to Wass Forest. Until Oshibana, the cold won't begin, but she wanted to be one step ahead.
After putting a pink winter shirt and some gray pants, she buckles up some combat boots, which were covered in black thick wool on the inside helping to protect her from the cold. She packed the clothing she thought could be helpful to keep her away from the cold of Oshibana before exiting the bathroom and went to the kitchen to prepare a little breakfast.
Lucy ate just a sandwich. Then, when she gets hungry she might as well ask Virgo to bring her some celestial world food.
After finishing with her sandwich; she put the dishes into the vessel. She liked to have things always clean and in its place. That will be weird, because of all her team's messes in her apartment.
'Oh my! I almost forgot that I had to talk with the landlady. I will be out for three months; I must pay rent after I'd returned from work. That is if I return alive from said job.' She sighed, thinking about the arrogant and the pervert smile of her new traveling partner.
When she entered the dining room, she got shocked: Natsu and Happy were playing with a pile of fishes that they had left on Lucy's table.
"HOW DID YOU GET INTOA MY APARTMENT!?" Lucy screeches more confused than angry at the sight of her friends there. 'I'd swear that I closed everything before I went to sleep.' She thought before noticing, that both, Happy and Natsu had their skin a tad darkened.
"Good morning Luce! Happy and I brought to your apartment some fish so have something to take and eat during your mission." Natsu said, smiling, "We've entered thru the fireplace, lucky us, uh? Why did you lock yourself here, why did you close everything? We could've entered through the window as we always had." He said pouting a little.
'That'd explain their skin…but why do they have to besot dumb?' Lucy thought.
"Aye! Lucy as you eat so much, I thought that you may need more food, since you're going away for three months and…" Happy couldn't complete the sentence, because an angry Lucy grabbed him by the tail shaking him from one side to the other, rather roughly.
"I do not eat that much, you stupid cat! And let me ask you guys something. How am I supposed taking this fish with me? And stop getting inside someone's place without their permission." Lucy sighed trying to calm down herself. "Anyhow, thank you guys for your help. You the friends, I can't take that fish with me though." She said a tad relaxed.
"Why's that Luce? What's so wrong with it? We've been fishing all morning, we wanted to surprise you." Natsu said gloomily.
Lucy stood there dumbstruck. They've been the entire morning doing something to help her and she only talked to them so harshly? She needed to apologize to them.
"I'm sorry Natsu you are absolutely right, please forgive me. I think I will ask Virgo to keep the fish in the celestial world, and that way I don't have to carry it with me the whole time." Lucy said with beaming at them brightly.
"Okay, don't worry about it. I will always forgive you. You're my best friend." Natsu flashes her a thumbs up.
Lucy flustered a bit grinning heartily towards her best friend. Happy flew towards Lucy hugging her.
"Lushy…We will miss you. When you get back, we all will go on a mission together." Solemnly promised the blue kitten, sobbing into the blonde's chest.
Natsu put a hand on Lucy's shoulder and lay his face against her forehead. "Be careful out here Lucy and everything will be fine. If the electric eel dares to lay a hand on you, I swear…I'll chop it of him."
Lucy blushed again. She'd never seen Natsu so determined and mature as he was acting then. Natsu pulled away carefully.
Erza and Gray wanted to say goodbye to the blonde along with Natsu ant their friends, but the latest told Lucy that they have gone on an important mission the previous night.
"Natsu…I will be fine." Lucy stated, confidently. "Don't worry guys I won't just vanish. After all, how difficult it can be? I'll be alongside a strong SS-Class Mage."
"Laxus is a good boy. I know it." Natsu smirks.
Lucy smiled at him about to give him a goodbye hug, when she realized that they were already outside her apartment.
"See you soon Luce! Remember that we have to do a mission when you're back, so you better come back safety!" The pink-haired boy said into the distance.
Lucy sighs, picking up a white fur jacket summoning Virgo in order to ask her to take the baggage back into the celestial world.
"Open the gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" She calls holding the maiden's key in the hand.
Virgo appeared and Lucy proceeded to ask her to send her entire luggage to her world.
"Do you need something else, princess? Is it punishment time?" Virgo said with a glim in her eyes.
"No, Virgo I don't need anything else. And it is not punishment time. You may take your leave." Said Lucy with in a friendly tone.
"Call me when you need your luggage back or if you want me to take care of your partner's bags." The maid said.
"Will do." Lucy said.
Virgo disappeared in a golden splendor.
'Now I simply need to speak with the landlady…and then I can go to Magnolia's train station.' The blonde said to herself noticing that her hands began to shiver. 'Oh god dammit...Now I just can't stop shivering. It is not my emotions though. Would it be apprehension? I'm nervous, maybe a little scared. But, who wouldn't be? I'll be going on a fucking three month mission with a complete pervert. Lucky me…' she mumbled.
Laxus was a very intimidating guy. No one on his Guild will dare to upset him, even though he deserves it sometimes. The lightning man also seems to be lonely, 'I wonder if I could be friends with him.' She though, unsure.
She remembered her own loneliness at her father's house before entering into fairy tale.
She put off her sad thoughts aside, looking forward. That was the only thing she had to do in order to feel better. She wasn't weak after all. Perhaps she wasn't strong enough physically, but she was proud of the strength in her magic and emotions.
While Lucy walked down the stairs towards the housekeeper's doorway, she looked back and sighed. She felt as if she was leaving something important behind. Although, she wasn't very sure of what it was, it was in her flat. The same flat where she'd begun to build a new life alongside the loving family of Fairy Tale.
'I have always been on missions with Natsu, Happy or the rest of my teammates. Now I will on my first mission with someone who is not a part of my team. Even Levy hasn't gone on a mission with me either. And now I will feel very insecure around this lightning man.' She said frustrated.
Lucy sighed again, while she knocks on the housekeeper's door.
"Lucy? I think that you've already paid rent this month. Is there anything you need from me? Are you in some kind of trouble? Did your teammates do something to the apartment?" The landlady asks in concern.
Although the housekeeper was, sometimes, very stubborn and reticent, she had a kind side.
"It's nothing like that at all. Don't worry about it please". Lucy said right away. "I know that I have already paid rent this month. I have just come to tell you that I'll have to leave on a three month mission. I can't pay rent until I'm back."
"That's not what I am worried about. You can pay rent when you're back. But you better came back, understood?" The landlady said.
Lucy beamed at her thanking the lady, telling her not to worry about the mission because she won't be doing it alone.
'I hope this young lady doesn't get herself in troubles. She way too kind with people and deserves to be treated with respect. I am happy that she'd chosen to live in one of my apartments.' The housekeeper though, while watching Lucy walk down the street toward Magnolia's train station.
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'I'd never imagined that I would find an opportunity to get to know Blondie better. I'll be around her for three months. What!? No. How can a woman like that make me feel so down? In addition, she is with that stupid fire dragon. Then why would I want her for this mission? She's a completely weak, useless being. Well, she is one of the brightest members of Fairy Tail tough, it is going to be fun!' Laxus though deviously when he exited the bathroom, dressed and ready to go the train station.
He ate some pancakes, and exited his home after locking it up. The train ride was 4 hours to Oshibana. And so, he and his weaker partner would spend two full days to reach Shirotsume and two or three more days to get to Wass Forest.
He didn't like transportations, preferring to feel the soil beneath his feet. However, he could guess that Blondie was not a walker person.
'Maybe I could tease her about walking from Oshibana to Shirotsume.' He chuckled arrogantly to himself.
'I only hope that this stupid woman does not complain. There are rumors that it is very whiny.' He thought, feeling the hint of a headache, though he was a little curious about it.
'It couldn't be that hard.' He assumed confidently.
Although, when he thought again of how close he would be with the hot blonde woman a malicious smirk appeared on his lips. 'These three months will be really interesting…' He thought.
He walked down the forest of Magnolia to get to the train station.
Laxus wasn't worried about the mission Makarov's just assigned him and Blondie, he was used to it, he was an SS-Class Mage after all.
Sometimes in that type of missions there was no relevant information. 'I wonder if that weak hot blonde mage is scared' He though grinning, but wondered what kind of mission it could be.
The only thing he knew was that a dark guild was at Wass Forest, and that a type Blondies' magic has appeared near Clearleafe, where Blondie and he had to work. When Laxus arrived at the train station, it was 8.45 am, they had a quarter of an hour to get the train and leave to Oshibana.
He groaned, he didn't like the thought of being on a train. The great Laxus Dreyar wasn't going to prove his weakness.
The first thing he gets to look was Blondie in a bench reading a book, while she was waiting the train. The brightness of the sun was shining the beige pages of Lucy's book.
She didn't realize that the sexy lighting Laxus Dreyar has arrived, she was too immersing to her thoughts. She didn't acknowledge him until Laxus towered up in front of her. He was too tall and she was very tiny in comparison to him. She stopped reading, Laxus obstructed the sunlight and she wasn't able to see the pages of her book.
She faced at his stormy green eyes and he smirked. She glared down his good-looking muscles. His unbuttoned purple T-shirt, made the young blonde mage breathless, she tried to stop her wandering gaze and averted her eyes from his body.
Laxus wasn't unaware of her gaze and laughed softly.
Lucy faced at him again, and she was able to see his car in the right eye along with his body's massive muscles.
His arrogant smirk was the cause she thought about him as a person who didn't worry about what others think of him. She felt a little uneasy too, she was worried about his strength and temper. 'He wasn't someone, I'd like to mess with' She guessed.
It was rumored that he was a very powerful wizard. So, Lucy couldn't help to feel fear and a small bit of respect toward the electric magician. Their strength gap difference was huge.
She was lost in his mysterious eyes again and felt a little shame to look at him like that. Sure, he was a devil, arrogant, selfish and self-confident Mage. 'But I can't help to look at his body…it will be stupid not to notice how hot Laxus is,' She frowned at her own thoughts.
"You have done with checking me out, Blondie?" Laxus smirk widely, 'Who would've known that Blondie was a perverted woman,' He though devishilly.
At the time Lucy awoke from her trance, she blushed.
"Move, Chickie. We have to hurry up to catch the damn train." He stated.
'Ooh, no! I will not have him leave me with that. Damn scoundrel, cursed and perverted,' Lucy thought angrily.
Suddenly, she stopped her fuming mood and began to feel uneasy around him. 'What if he wanted to spark me? I am not going to place my life in danger with yelling at him for his boldness,' She freaks out at the thought.
Laxus looked over his shoulder to see the uncomfortable blonde Mage smirking to himself. 'This is going to be fun…'
"Uh-mm…" Lucy took up.
"What do you want?" He almost growled.
""I have bought our tickets." She mused.
He nodded and started to walk to the platform of the train station.
"Wait!" She nearly yelled and run to him to get his big steps.
"What a hindrance." He said. Lucy gasped and tried to catch her breath from the running, "What the hell. Are you that weak that you can't handle running four steps, Blondie?" He mocked.
She hissed as a reply.
The train arrived at the station and they board the train.
"I wasn't checking you out sparky. I have seen more handsome men than you." She said to him while they sat across each other.
"What did you just call me?" He said angrily. 'What the fuck was with that woman! I'm going to zap her.' He thought, fuming. 'And what about she's seen more handsome men than me…'
"You've heard it, Sparky." She grinned at him, and looked to the windowpane.
But instead of zapping her, he tried to quiet himself.
'If I want her to be mine, I have to control my temper, I will not let her win this battle. She is a weakling, for god sake. And gramps would kill me if I hurt her. He doesn't have to know. I want to keep my head over my shoulder for a while'
"You're going to regret calling me 'Sparky' Blon-die." He glared at her with a death look.
She looked up at him with fear. 'Ooh no. He's going to zap me!' She squealed and closed her eyes.
The train began moving and he felt helpless against the dizzy feeling that he started to notice. Yet, Laxus tried to hide his motion sickness.
He never zapped the blonde girl, she opened one of her eyes to see that Laxus was listening to his sound pounds looking at the landscape through the windowpane.
'What the hell was with him? Foremost, he nearly yelled at me for calling him Sparky and knows he is ignoring me.' She though frustrated, but a little relieved that he didn't try to hurt her.
Lucy notices that Laxus didn't seem really interested in anything in particular and he was not a friendly person, but she knew that Natsu thought he wasn't a bad boy. 'Maybe a little lost, but I will trust you Natsu.'
The silence that invaded the environment made a certain amount of tension in the two magicians. Laxus was already accustomed to this type of silence, but with Blondie he felt weirded out.
'Well, I was not lying that I said I want to know her better.' He thought while he was struggling against his dizziness. 'She loved for all the guild members…I would like to know by myself as well.' He thought smirking. 'But she's constantly around the idiot Natsu.' He remembered with anger, 'This woman is too hot to be with boys like him. She needs a true man, just like me.'
Buried in his thoughts Laxus didn't realize that Lucy had fallen asleep with her head resting on the window of the train. Laxus gazed over her curved hips and licked unconsciously his lips.
'Damn Blondie. She's just too hot. What would it be like to have her under me? God, now I'm feeling like a teenager, fuck.' He tried to cold down.
Lucy tried to slumber a bit during the journey to Oshibana, unaware that a pair of storms eyes was checking her out. She had felt rather uncomfortable with that silence.
A jolt of the train woke her up. Lucy opened her lazy eyes and realized that it was already past noon. She straightened up and noted that Laxus had a hand on his abdomen and looked again through the window.
"Um…are you feeling well?" The blonde girl asks.
There was no response. Laxus looked at her with the corner of his eye and released a slight growling.
She tried to remain calm and sighs.
"I know the Great Laxus Dreyar is very proud and wouldn't recognize that he have motion sickness." She said chuckling.
"So?" He stated. "That's none of your business."
Lucy sighed again and stood up from her seat and sat by the side of Laxus. He was a little dizzy to object about the behavior of the woman, couldn't stop thinking about what she was doing.
'Why isn't she afraid of me? Doesn't she know how dangerous I am?' He thought
Lucy grabbed his head, guiding him to her lap.
"What the hell are you doing?" He asked, surprised at her actions.
"Natsu also has motion sickness and this helps him to relax, that if Erza has not knocked him before." She said with a small grin.
He felt a twinge in his heart, but tried to ignore He was annoyed that she had compared him to the idiot flamed-brain. 'What the fuck! I'm not as Flamed-brain.'
Laxus felt her dizziness lessened and he enjoys the essence of the young girl.
'Well, Natsu you have no opportunity to get Blondie, because she will be mine.' He thought, as a smile spread up in his perverted face while Lucy began to stroke his hair while Laxus snoozed in her skirt.
Laxus didn't know what made her behave that way with him; however, he said nothing, because he didn't care. He really liked it.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE WILL BE ARRIVING IN THE STATION OF OSHIBANA IN 5 MINUTES."
Lucy stopped stroking his hair and attempted to stand up. Laxus grunted when she stopped; he picked up his luggage and went outside the station. Lucy huffed resigned and followed him as she was able to catch his steps.
"Hey! Wait! -said angrily.
"TCH. Why are you so annoying Blondie?" He said with an annoyed tone.
'It is a damn fool, why he cannot behave like a normal person. Any member of the guild is easier to work on missions than a guy like him. I hope I will come alive at the end of this task.'
"Oh, now I'm an annoying girl? Have you taken a look at yourself? You're a jerk who doesn't hold any respect for his Nakama and only know to growl at everything".
"Look, I haven't mentioned your weakly butt. First, I don't need to take care of a wealthy and spoiled girl like you and second, you need to realize your place. I warn you, do not bother me Blondie or you will regret it."
"Like I am going to give up. You don't even know me, Laxus." She growled annoyed.
"Really? You're a spoiled girl who ran off her house, because you didn't want to get married."
Lucy's heart shifted with pain but she tried to cover it.
"That is part of the story, but you don't know most of it, you weren't in the guild when Phantom Lord attacked us." She looked at him with irked eyes.
"That won't be happening again if you agree to be my woman." He stated.
"Laxus Dreyar you're such a PIG! I will never be with anyone like you!" She pointed a finger to his chest.
"Why not? I'm the best Mage in Fairy Tail."
"Then, who am I?"
"Magically you are weakling, but you are smart. When I become master of Fairy Tail maybe I will allow you to stay in my guild."
"I wouldn't like to be in a guild where only strong Mages can stay. Fairy Tail is a space where people can live happily and have fun. We are truly a family. We are bonded together in bad and good moments. Who do you think that you are?" She said angrily.
"You know nothing, Blondie. Gramps have turned Fairy Tail in a tourist resort that people keep insulting and mocking. And he had also put those stupid emotional feelings to all of you." He shouted.
He was surprised about Blondie's temper. 'People weren't lying around the scary Lucy' He though, but he was so angry that she'd preferred to stay with those weaklings instead of him. Lucy was around to bother him about his past as well as he keeps mocking about hers, she refrained herself because she promise Master to not talk about that with Laxus. 'Well, that was for my sake.' She thought, trying to steady herself while she was holding her keys trying to calm herself down.
They continue walking in the streets of Oshibana, Lucy began to feel the cold weather. Her mood was gloomy because of Laxus's behavior. 'Three months with him? No way! I will die first'
"How will we go to Shirotsume? And how do we cross the mountains?" She continued.
"Shut your mouth already." He said angered by all the questions of Blondie. "We'll walk."
"We…will WHAT!?" She shouted.
"Oi, dumb Blondie stop yelling. Are you so feeble that you can't walk? What is it princess; do you want me to carry you, uh?" He scoffed at her, in a certain way he didn't mind about having her in his arms and close to his chest.
"In your dreams, Sparky." She stated with sarcasm.
'She is not going to let me get to her easily.' He thought with an arrogant smile, "If I were you I would not be discourteous."
"You are earning the same treatment you're giving me." She said angrily.
"Ooh, it's a shame I thought I will have caught one of those carriages that work with magic, but I think that as far as I can see you prefer to walk…" He said.
Laxus released a burst of laughter and began to walk towards Shirotsume.
"What? No, Laxus!" She stated as she ran to meet the magician.
Laxus turned in a corner of the street and entering into a bar to eat some lunch, before going to Shirotsume. When Lucy got into the bar, she noted that it was full of perverted men.
The men couldn't stop drooling over her beauty. Many of them started to whistle and cat calling when they saw the blonde girl curves as she walk beside Laxus.
Lucy was already used to men see her that way. Though, it usually happened when Natsu, Gray and Ezra where with her. Today, however, she was very nervous because none of her friends were there and she didn't trust Laxus: He wasn't different from these very men.
She approached along the SS-Class Mage to make her feel secure, it was the only one in whom she could entrust her wellbeing now. Although, she wasn't too keen on trusting her very life on this perverted jerk.
Laxus was getting angry with the other men, and when he felt Lucy clung on his arm he wasn't displeased at all. He maybe could use this to tease her later. It was not of his liking that other men were roaming their eyes all over Lucy.
She was his to ogle.
'Blondie has a mass of men eating from her hand…I can blame her for it. She couldn't help it…she's way too hot.' He laughed.
"What can I get you?" The waiter asked them while they take their place in the stool bar.
"Three burgers with extra fries and a beer." Laxus demanded.
"And what about you beautiful lady?" The waiter said, giving a hungry look towards Lucy's huge chest, who was trying poorly to cover herself with the menu card.
"The same, but in less quantity" She mumbled.
Laxus glared at the waiter that soon felt unfazed and went to prepare what they had asked. Lucy felt uncomfortable in that place and she keeps playing with her blonde hair to relax her tense body.
Laxus noticed her behavior and smirks.
'She has a goddess' body, but if she keeps acting like an insecure girl she won't have a true man in her life.' He thought.
"Don't tell me that these stupid men make you nervous." The self-proclaimed the best Mage asks with his typical arrogant smile.
"I'm not afraid of them. As you had said they are some stupid perverted men. I'm rather used to men looking at me that way; they're not worth wasting my time." She said rolling her eyes.
"Whatever, you aren't anything that I have seen already." He smirked.
"Why I have done to you to treat me like this? You're not better than those men." She stood up abruptly.
"Hey! Where are you going?" He roared.
"Somewhere far from you jerk." Lucy said storming out the bar, not bothering to wait for her food to arrive.
Laxus was left speechless in the bar's countertop. 'Had she just ran off? Well, I will give her time to calm down and then I will go to search for her, whether she likes it or not we have to do this work together or my grandpa would kill me before I set foot in Magnolia again.'
Outside of the bar…
Lucy could barely believe it. 'And to think that I have to endure three months with this jerk?' She was angry, he had hurt her and her NAKAMA. 'I can't believe he's a member of my guild.'
When she stormed out the bar, a few men followed her with their gaze. Laxus did nothing to stop her to run off of the bar.
Lucy sat on a bench in a nearby park breathing the cold air trying to calm herself down. She was so deep in her thoughts that she didn't notice some men from the bar had followed her to the park, not until they were there.
::TBC::
