Warning prepare yourself. (Maybe not too much..maybe I'm being dramatic as usual.)
Everything that is destined for you will inevitably reach you and hold tight to you whether it be a good or bad destiny, This I tell you is certain.
Lucy clicked her tongue three times walking around the pile of her belongings that had caught the pitying attention of all the people who lived in Fairy Hills.
She was calling for Plue desperately hoping the white puppy was still there. ''They killed my guppies,'' Jude said voice filled with hurt, flipping over the broken glass and going to bury his pets in the forest.
''Plue!'' she yelled and sure enough, the now brown dog came running past Jude barking happily, so stoked to see two of his owners.''He is all dirty, I wouldn't even guess this was him if he didn't shiver all the time.'' Jude commented picking him up and receiving a hard bite on his finger.'' Yep, it's him.'' he hissed in pain. ''He must've got out when they were raiding the house,'' Lucy observed taking the tired and hungry dog into her arms. ''He wouldn't them take him away.'' she said hugging the dirty dog before rushing to clean him at the fountain and feed him some of the kibble that fell out of the ripped bag promising to buy him more food.
''You know my father used to live in a house near here,'' Jude said when they were back in the car with the belongings that really mattered. ''Oh and how did you end up here?'' she asked gesturing to her old apartment. ''He told me you can move out to be independent as you like but stay nearby.'' ''this place was just built and Makarov started telling doctors didn't want to stay at the hospital to move into this building.''
Lucy hummed thinking about her grandfather's past delight with Jude living nearby. ''I applied to the hospital and my last name got me in.'' he started the engine recounting the remarks of upset doctors. ''You're an award-winning doctor.'' Lucy cheered him with her enthusiasm. ''You've always had the knack for healing.'' ''We all did,'' he said very proudly his family lineage being one thing one could brag about.
''And then you met mom because of your nervous scratching habit.'' ''Yeah she thought I had a rash on the palm of my hand.'' he chuckled. ''But she was going to apply at a different hospital.'' ''So she followed you to Magnolia hospital?''
''I didn't know at the time but she lived in Hargeon town.'' Lucy smiled at the effort her mother took to work in the Lucky ward with her father. ''This is the place I was telling you about.'' Jude said stopping the car and shifting the conversation.
''Wow, it's so grand!'' Lucy gasped looking at the house that was built way back in the 60's. ''It could use a little work but I thought you would like this place.'' ''But isn't it like an acre away from away from Magnolia hospital? Ivan should still have access to this land.'' Lucy questioned the dirty two-story formerly white house.
''I own this house and the small land around it.'' ''Oh! and I knew nothing about this?'' she quirked her eyebrows. ''Layla and I were going to get it fixed and give it to you after you got married,'' he said nudging her arm and making her flustered. ''But you already did that, now didn't you?'' Lucy didn't say anything her face was hot and red, she quickly toddled inside when Jude unlocked the door his many keys finally came in handy.
''I really like the large windows,'' Lucy said shaking the old purple curtains at her own risk calling dust upon her. ''I really, really like the furniture.'' she sat down on a bouncy blue couch that was covered in plastic and looked around at all the things that wore a similar plastic covering, she had never been here before because her grandparents had passed away long before she was born.
''Don't think 'Oh, because someone was here before I can't throw the things away','' Jude said opening a window and letting a new and calming breeze in. ''If you don't like something throw it away, my parents are gone now but I swear I'll see them again one day, their past possessions don't have that big a place in my heart.'' ''I think this house needs a new roof and to be pressure washed, painted and checked for critters and then you're good to go,'' Jude said pulled the plastic off of a blue velvet chair and taking a quick rest after following and leading Lucy around all day.
Lucy walked around the house still not daring to go up the stairs because she was a bit afraid. ''Grandma and Grandpa,'' she whispered to herself judging by her parent's stories they were very nice and lived life for other people rather than themselves instead. ''May you be resting in peace.'' she traced a fancy golden wording on the black marble tile that was carved into the dusty kitchen walls it held a favorite quote of theirs set in stone.
"A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back."
-Daphne du Maurier.
Lucy kind of felt that it gave her a better picture of who they were and she knew she would've cried if she had known them, she looked around the old kitchen that had only dust settled otherwise it was perfectly clean like the rest of the partially empty house.
''Lucy come upstairs and look at all the rooms!'' Lucy peered up the stairs that were painted brown and black, she wasn't used to living in a house that had stairs so she was a bit afraid, but she held onto the railing and slowly made her way to her father's place. ''This was my room,'' he announced when she made her way to where he was standing. ''I begged my mother to paint it green and white.''
he smiled recalling his request that was denied many times over. ''she liked the old navy color better, but gave in when my father argued that the house already had too much blue.'' '''It's the softest color!' she had argued but I still got my way.'' ''Let him have it, it can't hurt,''' my father stood firm on my decision, then mother angrily painted the room fighting him off with a paint brush whenever he came to check up on her though he still came back again and again.''
Lucy giggled when she heard her father's familiar hearty chuckle but when she looked at him, nostalgic tears were dancing their way down his cheeks. ''I just hope I did all I was supposed to do as a son.'' ''I'm sure you did exactly that,'' she said patting his back and consoling him before they checked out the other rooms. ''Why are there so many rooms,'' Lucy asked after Jude calmed down. ''I see about six.'' but she wasn't complaining. ''Oh, before they got married they built the house to house many guests and many children but they only ever had me.''
Lucy frowned trying to look out of the dirty window in the room she liked while listening to her father's story. ''I was a miracle child after the doctor said my parents would never have children.'' ''I guess that's why their love for me made other kids jealous.'' ''The same thing happened to me in middle-school.'' she said happily twirling around the room that her father let her claim. ''There is a piano and full bookshelves downstairs in the den,'' Jude said a quiet minute later sending Lucy running to see the magnificent addition to the already beautiful house.
After they saw the yard Lucy captured Plue who was running loose enjoying his cleanliness and the vast yard again. ''I'll see you later.'' Jude said ditching her and Plue with the Dragneels' for the first time so he could go to work this morning.
You cannot deny the fact that whatever you put forth will come back to you, so while you can sow gentle and loving seeds and that is what you will retrieve.
A week's time later_
Natsu rushed over to aid sweating bullets. ''1, 2, 3 lift!'' he commanded his tired body until a log was off of the man's leg. ''Don't worry you'll be alright.'' he tried to assure the man who was frightened by the boy who looked so different from people he had seen before his vibrant hair not helping his cause. ''Get away from me!'' he yelled Natsu was now in a tropical rain forest he had left the Philippines behind yesterday, some of his squad members had stayed behind like they were supposed to and more doctors had joined them.
''Calm down!'' Natsu yelled urgently as the man twisted and turned trying to escape the 'pink devil.' that was clearly trying to kill him. ''It speaks my tongue!'' the man swatted at him scratching and cutting the soft skin on his neck with his long nails.
Natsu grabbed his hands, went behind him and picked him up despite his protest. ''Don't worry,'' he said three times fast, running with the smaller bleeding man trying to get him to the camp they had set up and trying not to drop him.
It turned out the man had been bitten by a snake so after injecting the anti-venom Natsu treated the man who was still desperately trying to get away. ''That had to be the hardest procedure I had ever done.'' he sighed writing the events down when his members returned with children and elderly they had found. ''We can be taken out of here?'' one young woman was asking about her upcoming surprise journey.
''You can if you want to go,'' Natsu replied lowering his gaze because the disheveled woman was in her birthday suit like many of the people they had found. ''I want to go!'' people started to yell shocking the teachers who thought they would want to stay because of cultural reasons. ''You can just calm down.'' he chuckled wholeheartedly prompting them to laugh along.
''Hey,'' Laxus said to Natsu whilst putting two children down for examination. ''Hm?'' ''Your neck is bleeding.'' Natsu put his hand up to his neck and surely there was blood there. ''I must've been scratched.'' ''Well then, sit down patient we have to examine you as well now.''Natsu laughed bitterly sitting down.
''I am not a devil,'' he said when his patient woke up in the evening. ''I'm human like you.. I just look different because I'm from somewhere far away,'' he informed him slightly hurt by his remarks that were similar to another people's remarks. ''You can test and see if I'm lying, I have inside of me a heart that beats.'' Natsu came over to the still scared man and placed his hand over his rapidly beating heart. ''I'm tired so it beats very fast, but I am a human.'' then he returned to his place and picked up one of his notebooks, sitting by candlelight.
The book was green in color, patient observations and the important events of his day were listed in abundance.''Anyone would know that book is yours.'' a male nurse called teasingly to Natsu from his cot, the young boy blushed looking at the picture of Lucy he sketched on the first page that just screamed 'Natsu's book.'
She wore a wide smile on her face in his half colored picture, a pink and white outfit on her body, her head was cocked cutely to the side and her eyes were in happy slits after she mouthed the words 'I love you too.' above the picture he wrote the word precious in bold font. 'Why can't I get this right?' he thought frustrated erasing her bust line in another cute picture he was sketching for the tenth time. 'I should really stop and go to sleep.' he thought to erase her entire body except her face feeling a bit pervy.
Natsu raised his nose to the air and sniffed the passing wind, nature was his muse and Lucy was the work he created on pages when the atmosphere tickled him until he felt lonely.
It had only been a week and he felt like running back home at times like this but he knew had to stay as he giggled to himself watching a video of Lucy and Jude fighting because Jude was eating out of the pot and she wanted dinner as well.
He sat up on his makeshift bed and simply breathed, this stop in the Malaysian rain-forest was just a breather until they got to the real cities, where chaos undoubtedly was waiting.
The lofty gales of wind ruffled his hair affectionately in her place as he stretched his aching muscles and laid down on his hammock waiting for Laxus to return while keeping his sharp eyes on his newest patient.'Such a beautifully lonely place.' Natsu watched the many dark trees nod their heads as if they could hear him speaking softly in his own mind.
I would transfer your pain, sadness, and sorrow to myself if I knew what you felt that's how much I care and it has nothing to do with the love I feel.
Yet another week later-
Lucy left the court more pumped than ever because the tables seemed to be turning amidst all of the noise in the court which mostly consisted of lawyers screaming 'Your honor!' and Aquarius yelling 'Overruled!' and calling witnesses to the stand, it was crazy how many times Virgo yelled the words 'Objection, Your honor!' in a day.
You would think by now Lucy would've won her case, she didn't understand that much about the court and Ivan seemed like he knew much more but he was barely even in court most of the time someone else was there in his place to represent him because he was a 'busy' man.
Lucy looked at the sky hoping that wherever he was currently Natsu could see her through the same blue mirror, that she was seeing him through. The wind danced with her as she stepped into the street when it was alright for her to cross.
''Young lady!'' an old man yelled frantically. ''Yes?'' she asked turning to see where his voice was coming from and that's when she heard the bright red car speeding up. 'Huh?' she thought as it approached her at top speed.
'That lady will get hurt.' she thought suddenly from her place on the pavement. ''Oh My God!'' people were screaming as the driver backed up and sped off down the road.
Lucy didn't feel the pain immediately but then her voice hit the top of her throat. ''I can't feel my wrist.'' and then ''It's broken!'' she continued her pained yelling in an ambulance as they took her to the nearest hospital Magnolia general.
''Don't touch her!'' Erza snapped at a doctor. ''This is my patient.'' she was saying to a woman Lucy couldn't quite see because things were hazy, but judging by Erza's aggressive tone of voice she guessed it was someone from the Phantom Lord ward. ''I said this, in the beginning, you should know not to touch other's patients!'' she grabbed hands from the gurney's side and urged the baffled nurses to continue on.
When Lucy regained her consciousness Levy was by her side, ''What happened to me?'' she asked feeling completely out of it. ''You have luckily only a Colles' fracture and a slight concussion,''Levy replied quickly looking up from the X-rays. ''Don't try to move your wrist right away.'' she gestured with her pen to the pink cast Lucy was now wearing, she still did because she was uncomfortable and instantly felt a sharp pain in her already swollen forearm.
''Careful.'' Levy helped her move her arm and elevate it. ''Someone hit me with their car,'' Lucy recalled when she was asked. ''It was a hit and run,'' Levy informed Jellal who came to see about Lucy's condition.
She had broken her legs before but it was just plain uncomfortable being in the hospital she used to treat like her second home, that sheltered her years ago. ''Call me crazy but I'm pretty sure they didn't mean to leave you with only a broken wrist.'' Jellal whispered gravely.
''You can't stay here we have to transfer you because of the enemies lurking in the halls.'' he added quickly shifting her from her bed and into a wheelchair.
''Enemies?'' ''Of course, you've made quite a few when you started going to court.'' ''Hey!'' Erza sliced into the conversation and scared all three of them. ''Hey you!'' Jellal shot back at his ghost-like wife. ''You scared me.'' Erza slid up close to her husband's side and eagerly whispered. ''Were you guys starting a cult in here without me?'' ''No we weren't, we were just sharing ideas with each other.''
Levy said but her eyes were telling the younger lady to close the door which she did. ''Lucy, Jude is here to pick you up.'' ''We're discharging you immediately,'' Erza informed her through whispers carefully helping her completely into her chair before returning her hands to their usual spot on her growing stomach. ''Why didn't he come to get me earlier?'' Lucy asked Jellal who rolled her quickly down the hall.
''He was performing a surgery and couldn't be reached the first time,''he replied avoiding hospital personnel with a sharp turn.
When they were safe in an elevator he spoke his mind in a low voice. ''You know I hope you win your case, it's like a prison in here.'' ''I can kind of see that, everyone is whispering instead of talking like normal.'' ''We're being watched in this elevator mind you.'' he replied in a hushed voice.
Lucy felt horrified as Jellal ran her to the door before security might notice them. ''Be very careful.'' Mira-Jane hissed to Gajeel as they both carefully placed her into the waiting car.
''How did that happen!?'' Grandine asked as soon as Lucy was brought through the door, only this time Jude explained that she was hit. ''Jude?!'' Grandine questioned her old friend's presence because while Lucy stayed with Dragneels Jude remained at the hospital like he used to do over the years.
''Yep, I'm here,'' he said but this wasn't a time for happy reunions someone tried to harm his daughter.
Plue jumped at Jude's heels happily barking 'pun pun!' he could see his owners again after a long day, Happy followed Lucy intent to lay with her but curled instead into a ball outside of her door. The animals in the house could feel her pain though they could feel none of it at all and watched her quietly comforting her with only their eyes.
''I just hope I won't need my wrist to be reset,'' Lucy said shivering at the thought when they set her on her bed. ''It's okay I'm sorry I won't be able to help you make those cookies you wanted though.'' Lucy was comforting Natsu's siblings and trying to stay cheerful herself. ''It's fine we wanted only to spend time with you,'' Wendy said cheering up a little at her words. ''Yeah.'' Gray agreed.''But did they catch the person who did this?'' he asked burning inside for revenge on the wanted criminal.
''I don't know I think they would call us,'' Igneel said from the beside the door frame. ''You said the person was driving a red car? We should know and inform the police'' ''Yeah they were.''
Igneel adjusted Lucy's position and laid her down to rest. ''Come kids let's go.'' he ushered his children out and opened the curtains slightly. ''Rest,'' he said closing the door leaving her to think about her accident and how it was going to get in the way of her treatment probably because it was so painful. ''I promised you I would take care of myself yet here I am.'' she sighed closing her eyes absorbing the melancholy of the moment, trying hard not to fall into fear but instead find her strength in the form of her angels in her dreams. 'I love you for always being by me.' she mused picking a slice cake off of a picnic plate with her whole family including Grandpa, Grandma, and Natsu in her dreams.
Devils work loudly and only a few hear them, they know they will receive what is due to them in good time yet they still push on all their lives with all their might.
''I told you to roll over her!'' an angry voice snapped at the driver of the red vehicle. ''It would've been hard for me to get away if I did.'' a whiny voice replied submitting to the angrier and trying to calm the impending wrath. ''Wouldn't you want to take care of her yourself, I'm pretty sure that would be more enjoyable for you.'' ''I can and I will have to now because you can't finish a simple job!'' the voice snapped again.
''Now get out of here before the police follow you here and ditch the car you fool!'' ''What if someone saw you pull up here?! it doesn't matter if people don't frequent this place go!'' the owner of the whiny voice hurriedly ran out back and got in the car that was to be ditched before running on foot like a lunatic. ''What are you in a hurry about?'' a brown-haired woman asked innocently, stopping the runner in their tracks.
''Hey, I'm talking to you!'' the brunette yelled quickly rounding him because now he was plain suspicious in this sketchy freight yard place and at night too, plus he wouldn't turn around as he reached into his pocket for a concealed blade.
''Evergreen they caught him let's go!'' Elfman called staring blankly at her from his car. ''What?!'' he asked himself seeing a man run towards her and Evergreen disarming and tackling him like a pro. ''You should've still been in jail!'' she said struggling to cuff his hands because he was fighting urgently. ''Why is he here?'' Elfman questioned rushing over helping his rookie partner to fasten the cuffs and hoist the man into the squad car.
''We've got to call Jude and tell him that somehow we found Jose Porla wandering around,'' Evergreen said heaving a sigh and sitting beside Elfman, she dug in her purse and found her cute phone, which she had argued when she first met him 'A cute phone for a cute gal.' though Elfman begged to differ.
''I wish I could spray him with pepper spray after what he did to Juvia.'' the almost corrupt investigator said fixing her locks back into an elegant bun. 'Freaking love you sometimes.' Elfman thought starting the car up with a smirk, he would do the same if it was permissible though deep down everyone knew Jose would deserve anything he had coming, though not many but two knew he didn't work alone.
Chapter fin-
I thought I should post this before my seventeenth birthday on the 5th.
I sincerely hope you liked this chapter and just how the overall story is progressing.
I am a blind writer so I don't know how the story will turn out until I write it down.
As you can tell I'm not good at describing things like outfits and scenery because I have never really been outside of my house no longer than six hours before or had the pleasure of owning such beautiful articles of clothing.
I feel another sickness coming on soon :( but I hope to update for you all soon. :)
-Peace
