Lucy invited all her close friends to the ceremony, but only five were able to attend due to jobs or other obligations. The ceremony was two weeks away. Erza and Cana would leave back to Magnolia sometime during the after party and Levy and Gajeel made reservations at a little hotspring hotel outside of the city. Laxus told Lucy he had rented a room at the same hotel where the writer's guild put Lucy up too. She asked Laxus to stay the next day and they could go out on their second "first official" date since starting their relationship from scratch. Laxus was more than willing to take a couple of days off of guild work to show his girl around Crocus in style. Lucy couldn't wait. Everything in her life was finally starting to fall into place.

Sitting in her bath the night before she was to leave for Crocus, Lucy was almost giddy. She had hung out with Laxus and his team for most of the evening, not noticing the surreptitious glances Cana kept giving the couple. He walked her home, well up the stairs to the room she was using until they got back to the point in their relationship where they were cohabitating again, and they shared a very chaste goodnight kiss, and Laxus left to go home and pack for the trip. Lucy was happy he'd be her escort for the evening and then onto funner things the next day. She mentally listed all the places in Crocus she wanted to see. She was even thinking about starting to take small mage jobs for the guild again. Wendy had cleared her for any and all strenuous activity, so she knew jobs were not out of the question anymore. The physical therapy she had endured was as good for her her previous training, but she knew she needed to up her meditation and magic endurance. Lucy got out of the tub, dried herself off, and changed for bed. She sat on the floor to meditate for awhile and finally crawled into bed.

Lucy awoke to Horologium sounding his alarm in her head. She got up, got ready for the dau, grabbed her luggage and golden goddess dress, and headed down to the guild bar for a quick coffee and breakfast before she had to catch her train to Crosus.

Cheers, good lucks, and many well wishes were shouted at her as she stepped out of the guild hall on her way to the station.