It had been 3 days since Mira, Juvia, Wendy and Carla visited Lucy. When the 4 girls had returned to Magnolia from Crocus, it was already the afternoon. They entered the guild and all eyes went to them. They knew that the guild wanted to know about Lucy and they thrived of the fact that the guild were starting to feel sorry. The guild knew that Lucy left, but the girls know that they wouldn't expect her to have gotten rid of all ties to them by removing her guild mark.
Natsu was sitting at a table near the bar with Erza and Gray, the dragon slayer smelling Lucy's faint scent on all 3 mages and exceed. It bothered him knowing that the 4 had seen Lucy and stayed with her overnight without him. The simple thought of Lucy thriving and being happy because she was away from the guild left a bad headache in his head. Happy being no different as both slayer and exceed thought the celestial mage as a best friend and partner despite it all.
Gray and Erza on the other hand, were more or less feeling the same way as Natsu. They were jealous and felt replaced by the 4 girls, Gajeel and Lily. Though, they supposed that they deserved it... because they knew Lucy must have felt that way when she was also ignored. But on a much larger scale. It didn't bother them as much as Natsu, but they still felt hurt nevertheless.
In contrast to Team Natsu, minus Lisanna, Levy has accepted the fact that Lucy was mad at her and the rest of the guild. But quite frankly, the bluenette knew that she very well deserved it. It was a horrible thing she did, ignoring Lucy for 5 months. Ignoring Juvia, Wendy, Carla, Gajeel and Lily for 5 months. The guild may be in denial, but Levy knew that waiting for Lucy would be better than to believe that she doesn't hate them.
Makarov was the first to greet the returning fairies, the girls immediately telling the old man about how much Lucy has gotten better from her used-to-be depressed state. Gajeel and Lily were next and Juvia had told them that Lucy wished for their visit after a mission. To which the dragon slayer and exceed just smirked, thinking about how funny it would be for Gajeel to just intimidate all the rich boys.
Mira then went to Lisanna, who had covered for her shift alongside Kinana. The youngest Strauss found it astonishing at how Mira told her that Lucy wished for a visit from her as well. Thinking that the blonde celestial mage held a small grudge on her because she took the attention of those in the guild. Which Mira denied immediately and suggested to call Lucy on her communication lacrima together later that week.
"This is so unfair!" Natsu suddenly shouted after hearing that Lucy wanted to see Lisanna, standing from his sitting position as everyone's eyes were on him. "If Lisanna goes to see Luce, then we go with her too!"
"Natsu..." Erza said in a warning tone, but the dragon slayer just ignored the scarlet mage.
"Natsu... I believe Lucy was very clear in her letter that she did not want to involve herself in your life anymore." Makarov said, Mira going towards the glowing communication on the bar counter. Which went unknown to the guild.
"Luce can't keep avoiding us forever, Gramps." Natsu growled. "She is still nakama... she's still a part of Fairy Tail!"
"You don't know how wrong you are in that statement, Natsu." Wendy said, shaking her head.
"Besides, you wouldn't even get anywhere near Bunny Girl even if you were to find her." Gajeel spoke up, crossing his arms. "Where she is now... people who try to get to her without her permission, would only fail."
"I'd like them to see me try-" Before Natsu could finish his sentence, a blast of light had come out of the communication lacrima and hit Natsu square on the face. Making the dragon slayer fall down on the table.
"How?" Gray asked, looking towards Mira who was waving at the lacrima before it disconnected with whomever she was talking to.
"Ah, I taught her that trick." Makarov said, chuckling a bit as he remembered the fond memory. "Lucy has practiced quite indeed."
"That was Lucy?" Levy asked.
"It seemed she couldn't handle Natsu's outbursts anymore." Mira said with a smile. "She told me to tell you that one day she'll come to deal with you herself, Natsu."
"Well, look at that." Juvia said. "You'll all see her soon, so Juvia suggests that you wait patiently for her instead of pressuring us to reveal her location."
All that happened when the 4 girls arrived to the guild that afternoon and it had been 3 days since that day. Mira and Lisanna hadn't contacted Lucy yet nor has Gajeel and Lily visited her either. However, Lucy was about to meet a set of new people either way and as she expected from their family... they weren't just normal people. They were going to make Lucy go on one hell of a rollercoaster.
It was in the afternoon at Ouran Academy, the hosts were opened for business as usual and were doing their thing while Lucy, Tohru, Kyo and Yuki were eating cake at a different table from the rest. It was an actually a relatively normal day. Which is pretty weird to the 3 heroines since nothing was ever normal. But they thought too soon as they should've known that such a normal day... never stays normal for long.
And just like that, the door to the Host Club was blasted open. Everyone in the room looked towards the open doors and just like that a person ran into the room at amazing speeds. Much to Kyoya's distaste, like when Mira had done the same a few days ago. Lucy looked to Tohru, Yuki and Kyo to see the poor orange haired boy shiver all of a sudden. Tohru laughing half heartedly and Yuki just sighing.
"Oh hell... not here!" Kyo said as he took a step back.
"What the heck is up with-"
"KYO!" A girl's voice shouted, interrupting Lucy's question. The blonde celestial mage turned to see a brown haired girl, who resembled Tohru quite a bit, running with tears in her eyes. And it was clear that she was here for Kyo.
"Why are they here?" Yuki groaned, massaging his temples.
"Now Yuki... it's not that bad." Tohru tried to reassure the boy.
Lucy just watched, along with the hosts and female students, in confusion as the brunette girl ran to Kyo as if in slow motion. At first, it seemed logical to think that the unknown brunette would just hug Kyo, but they were completely wrong as the girl's eyes suddenly went dark and she began to literally punch Kyo brutally as she yelled at him in anger. To which Tohru and Yuki remained calm and stood back.
"HOW COULD YOU LEAVE AND NOT TELL ME!?" She yelled.
The hosts were too in shock to interfere nor did Honey or Mori want to interfere with what seemed like a lover's quarrel. Only, it seemed that it was one-sided. Suddenly, 4 more people entered the Host Club... only they were more calm than the brunette. When the 4 entered, the female students went crazy. When the hosts, Lucy, Tohru and Yuki turned to face them, the last 2 sweat dropped as their jaws fell to the floor.
The first of the 4 was a small boy from what Lucy could tell, however, he was wearing girl clothing and was acting like a slightly more mature Honey. But the gap was very small. He had the same shade of blonde hair as honey and hazelnut with a tint of yellow eyes. When he locked eyes with Tohru and Yuki, the boy immediately waved in a carefree manner and ran towards them.
"Tohru! Yuki! I missed you guys!" He said.
"Momiji don't just run off, alright?" The man behind him said, before looking to the brunette that was still yelling at Kyo. "Kagura, stop beating Kyo. I don't need to have more work than I already have."
The girl, which Lucy and the hosts logically assumed was Kagura, immediately stilled and dropped Kyo to the floor. She smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of her head. "Ah, sorry Ha'ri." She apologized. "I guess I couldn't help myself and went overboard."
"That was one serious turn around." The hosts and Lucy thought in unison.
The man who had addressed Kagura seemed very serious, intimidating and cold. Much like how one would perceive Kyoya at first glance. He had sleek black hair, a portion of it covering one of his dark eyes. He wore simple black office pants, a white dress shirt and black tie. Over it was a white doctor's coat. In his hand was a bag with a clipboard sticking it out of it. Haruhi found it ironic just how similar he seemed to Kyoya.
"Ah will you look at all these wonderful ladies!" A voice that Yuki seemed to freeze at the very sound of it. "So much inspiration all at once! My, nothing less to be expected of the Ouran Academy."
The hosts and Lucy turned to see a man had very light silver hair that went down to just above his thighs and yellow piercing eyes. In his hand was a rose and he bore a smile that resembled much like Tamaki when he would be hosting his clients. Because of the fact, the girls who were regular clients of the eldest Suoh immediately swooned in delite. Practically yelling at how there were 2 Tamaki's in the room.
The final guy was a boy that seemed about the same age as Tohru, Yuki and Kyo. He had a weird goth and bad boy type of style, which Tamaki noticed that the girls found intriguing. The top of his hair was white while the bottom was black, which was an combination to the hosts. He had grey eyes and wore a bunch of necklaces and chains. He seemed pretty bored and tired from Lucy's point of view.
Lucy then began to feel a sort of energy from the 5 newcomers and she immediately knew that they were not only Sohma's, which would explain their relation with Tohru, Yuki and Kyo, but they too were also a part of the Zodiac curse. Ever since she found out about the Sohma's curse, little by little, Lucy began to feel a type of energy come from both Yuki and Kyo. Which she assumed was because of her knowledge to the curse.
"Hey." The white and black haired boy spoke up. "You people mind leaving us alone, we really don't need an audience here."
"The ladies may leave, but we stay since this is our club room you've seemed to barge in." Kyoya said, adjusting his glasses.
"Forgive our intrusion." The man Kagura addressed as Ha'ri said. "We didn't mean to make quite a scene but I'm here to see Yuki, but they decided to come along."
"We'll talk more on the matter after the young ladies leave." Kyoya said as each of the female students left, making sure to take subtle pictures of the men at the door.
Once the female students were all gone and the hosts, Lucy and Tohru helped clean the club room, everyone gathered inside the meeting room connected to the main club room. The same room that Lucy used when she had answered Makarov's call a few days ago. Everyone either sat at the table or stood in a different part of the room. Once the doors were closed, before a word was even said, the man with long silver hair had immediately went to tackle Yuki.
"Yuki dear! Have you-"
"Don't you dare try to tackle me here." The younger boy replied, ducking from the man and then pinning his arm to his back.
"Mind explaining what's going on?" Haruhi asked, crossing her arms.
"Yeah. Not only do you guys barge in here, but you made us close for business way too early." Kaoru added.
"Plus, how do you know Yuki, Kyo and Tohru?" Hikaru asked.
"Oh! I can explain that!" The boy who resembled Honey said, raising his hand. "So first of all, my name is Momiji. The tall guy with black hair is Hatori, but we call him Ha'ri if you want, she's Kagura, that's Hatsuharu but we call him Haru and that's Ayame. We're all a part of the Sohma family!"
"Wait, so you all are related to Yuki and Kyo?" Honey asked.
"That's right." Kagura said nodding. "We're all cousins. But Ayame is Yuki's older brother."
"No way those 2 are related!?" Lucy and Tamaki asked together.
"Believe me when I say I wish we weren't." Yuki said, sighing.
Kyo was sitting on a chair at the table, across from Kagura, he had his usual frown on his face and anyone could tell that he was still in pain from the beat up he got from the brunette Sohma. He looked to Hatori and the bag that he was holding. "Still..." The orange haired boy spoke up. "Couldn't you have waited 'til we got home to do the check up?"
The hosts and Lucy turned to Kyo with questioning faces while Hatori simply went to Yuki and began to put the stethoscope on his chest, then proceeding with other procedures. "Check up?" Honey asked.
"Yes. Yuki always has a monthly check up done by me to see if his condition is still stable, since he had asthma and all." Hatori explained. "But because their guardian, Shigure Sohma, had failed to inform me of your temporary leave, I had to come here myself and the others wanted to follow with me."
"I just came so that I could see Kyo be beaten half to death." Haru honestly said.
"No one asked you, ya freaking cow!" Kyo shouted, standing up from his seat.
"Now now you too." Tohru said. "There's no need to fight."
"Why did Kagura-chan even do that?" Honey asked Momiji.
"That's just how she shows affection." He replied.
"That's a very extreme way to show your love." Hikaru thought.
Kyo didn't listen as he immediately punched the white and black haired boy on the head, sending him back to the wall. Tamaki was about to interfere when both Hatori and Kyoya stopped him. It was then that Haru got back up, a cynical grin on his face. Chills going down the Hitachiin twins, Honey, Haruhi and Tamaki's backs. Momiji smiling as he shrugged, not surprised by the act.
"Here comes Black Haru again." Yuki simply said as he sighed.
"Black... Haru?" Mori asked in his usual monotoned voice.
"So you looking for a fight, huh Kyo!?" Haru asked, raising his voice. A bad boy personality replacing his laid back one. "Do you honestly want to humiliate yourself here in this room?"
"It's better when I fight you when you go black anyway!" Kyo retorted and without hesitation both dashed towards each other, fists rolled together and ready to punch the other's face.
"If they fight in here, the room will be in an even more mess!" Kaoru said in worry.
"Haru! Don't go beating Kyo!" Kagura shouted.
"You're one to talk." Haruhi thought with a dumbfounded expression.
"Open! Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!" Lucy's voice shouted amidst the the chaos.
A golden glow enveloped the room for a few seconds, everyone blinking from seeing Kyo and Haru about to punch each other to seeing a very muscular and large cow standing on 2 legs with an ax on his back holding the 2 Sohma's by their heads. Everyone in the room was surprised, but then Taurus threw Haru to the couch on the other side of the room as Kyo felt an arm snake it's way to put him in a headlock.
"Moo! That was a close one, wasn't it Miss. Luuuuucy?" Taurus asked, letting go of Kyo's head, Momiji and Kagura helping Haru up from the couch. The black and white haired boy back to his normal self.
"Thanks a lot, Taurus." Lucy said as she tightened her grip on a clearly terrified Kyo, a smile of pure malice on her face that resembled that of Mira. "You may return to the Celestial World now."
Once the celestial spirit was gone, the newly arrived Sohmas stared at Lucy with wide eyes. The younger Suoh locking Kyo in a headlock, but didn't transform like he was supposed to and they all knew she wasn't a part of the Chinese Zodiac either. "What kind of trick is this?" Ayame mumbled under his breath beside Yuki and Hatori.
"It's because Lucy is not all together human." Yuki said in a low voice, the hosts not hearing a single word as Momiji, Kagura and Haru listened too. "What you saw just now is Lucy's magical powers at work and because of the magic in her veins, we are not affected when we hug or are hugged by her."
"People like that... exist in this world?" Hatori thought.
"I suggest we mention none of this to Akito." Haru said calmly. "Just like how the world cannot know our curse, the world and Akito cannot know of Lucy's existence."
"Not just Lucy's." Tohru said as everyone watched Lucy lectured Kyo about picking a fight and not being able to pay for damage repairs. "There a millions of others born with magic. You are immune to them as well."
"That's just astonishing!" Ayame said as Lucy finished her lecture.
"But of course!" Lucy said, misreading Ayame's cry. "Taurus is one of my strongest celestial spirits!"
"At least none of the club's furniture was broken. Wouldn't need any of you to be in debt now." Kyoya said, writing things down on his clipboard, Haruhi giving him a death glare for reminding her of when she broke the vase.
"Well, if you'll excuse us. The reason for our visit is over, so we must take our leave now." Hatori said.
Momiji wasted no time in hugging Lucy, not having to worry to transform because of the hug and felt happy at the thought of feeling normal for that second. Lucy was taken aback but could easily tell why the younger boy hugged her tightly and hugged him back just as tight. She told herself to remind Yuki, Tohru and Kyo to tell the others about what they found on how to break the curse when they return to their home.
"To find peace, love and warmth in your heart... I'm sure that's what will break your curse."
The next day, Lucy was out in the front of the school taking a walk before boring classes started. She was talking with Tohru and Haruhi about the work they would be doing that day and was also telling both cousins to let loose and try not to be so serious with all their school work. Even though it was a rich academy and they had to be on top of things, a break would never hurt anyone.
However, their conversation was cut short when Lucy noticed a very familiar white haired girl leaning against one of the cherry blossom trees at the school's front courtyard. The girl was looking at the sky, wearing a modest skirt that went down to just above her knees and a normal halter top. Lucy hadn't seen her in awhile and she wondered how she got here without guidance from Capricorn but she couldn't care less at the moment.
It had been long since they last talked and even though they weren't as close, Lucy still had a large smile on her face. In the back of her head, the blonde wondered how the young takeover mage made it here without a certain annoying Fire Dragon Slayer sticking to her like glue. That's when Tohru and Haruhi soon noticed the white haired girl as well and both raised an eyebrow in wonder.
"Lucy? Who are you looking at?" Tohru asked.
"Friend of yours?" Haruhi added.
"She's more than a friend, you guys." Lucy said, the youngest Strauss hearing the 3 from behind her. When she and Lucy locked eyes, the girl immediately had the brightest smile on her face. "It's Lisanna!"