The next morning Lucy woke up to the sunlight hitting her right in the face, one day she will have to find a way to get her curtains closed after she falls asleep star gazing so this doesn't happen anymore. Grumbling she finally throws her comforter off and braces herself for the chilled hard wood floor. Her huge cotton tee and underwear doing nothing to keep her warm. Shuffling over to the dresser she grabs out a pair of dark jeans with a high necked navy and gold tank plus a black matching set of bra and underwear she makes her way to the bathroom.
After the war and having the apartment rebuilt everything is bare or plain. Her soft pink walls and couch were gone, replaced by a simple tan color, along with dark wood accents for her bed and dresser. Her girly pink wardrobe and accents had also disappeared, instead she sportted a night sky themed comforter and more basic colors in clothing with the addition of jeans. No more short skirts and cleavage showing shirts.
Softly Lucy started humming as she filled the large tub up and added honey bath salts to the water. It was still relitively early in the morning, and no one had called her on the Lacrima yet so she had time to spare. After her bath she will have to look over her notes again to decide what she was going to do.
Last night she had worked hard on two septerate lists, one for people she could reach out to ask if they have heard anything about a gold key and another list with things she wished to improve on.
Relaxing in the bath Lucy idly playing with the water with her fingers, swirling and bendling around her hand and up her arm. At least she has this to remember Aquarius by until she gets her hands on the hopefully remade key. Her spirits have been to reserved when it comes to telling her anything about the new key. They can't give her any clues to location or when it will resurface. Their wording was presise, and resurface leads Lucy to believe is will come from water. The only thing is, water is literally all across the continent. Knowing Aquarius it will come from somewhere with beautiful and clean water, so just tracking down somewhere that fits those details is what she will be looking for.
Sighing as the water got colder Lucy made her way out of the tub, draining it before she started getting dressed. With her clothes on and her hair brushed and left to air dry she settled back into her desk chair.
Calling out Plue with a mental cheer, a cute puff of sparkles he showed up wobbling with his normal excitement.
"Oh Plue! How I've missed you!" Lucy says and she quickly pulls him into a warm hug.
"Pun punnn punn!" He exclaims back.
"I know, I have to get this all figured out Plue. I want our family to be whole again, even if Aquarius is mad to have me as her holder again."
"Pun pun" He agrees.
Lightly placing him on the desk corner Lucy pulls out a lolli from the drawer and hands him to keep him occupied as she writes.
"I'm going to be writing a lot of letters Plue, reaching out to people I've worked with before to hopefully get some sort of clue. Like maybe BoBo or Chief Moka at Galuna Island have heard something about another key! Or even asking Master Mavis about seeing anything in Tenrou Island. There's just so many people over the years we've come across." She finished with a bit of determination entering her eyes.
"Pmmn." Plue responds around the lolli in his mouth.
Shaking her head with a small smile Lucy continues her list.
"Hey Plue, you know how I've been having Capricorn help me with my meditating? Do you think he would be interested in helping improve my physical abilities? And maybe this way I can find out how to get the Star Dress ability out of him if we spend more time together..." Lucy thinks our loud.
"Punn." He says seriously.
Caught off guard by the tone of his voice Lucy raises her gaze to meet his.
"I know how serious this is Plue, but I'm so tired of being saved!" She exclaimed by slamming her hands down.
"Yes I have been able to do more due to my water magic but even that I have barely been practicing and it's still hard to master! I should have just asked Juvia for help but I could not handle the Love-Rival bull she tries to pull all the time!"
"But with the rest of my spirits I will have them here to help me master my Star Dress with them. So then I won't feel like I'm failing to control their powers like I feel like I'm failing to control Aquarius'!" Lucy finishes by leaning back in her chair and rubbing her eyes.
"I just want to make Mama proud Plue, I want to be the best Celestial Spirit summmoner I can be! Make all spritis feel safe and be who they want to be! And form more friendships that turn into family that can't leave me. Ones that I can protect, by myself." Lucy says in a whisper as tears slide down her porcelain cheeks.
Plue wobbles over and softly rubs Lucy shoulder making comforting whines.
"Okay." She breathes out slowly "Tears won't get me anywhere, you up for a trip to the guild Plue? I think I've made my decision."
Carefully wiping her eyes Lucy picks up the jittery dog, strapping on her belt and keys along with slipping on some boots Lucy gets ready to head to the guild. Stopping at her front door she turns to take a careful look at her apartment nodding her head she know this is what she needs to do.
Alright awesome! Chapter #2 complete! Where do you think our Lucy should go? What different things should she learn? What kind of training do you think she will receive? Oooo the possibilities are endless! Please let me know what you think or feel! Much love. Write on!