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Levy and Lucy were sitting inside a caravan with a lot of supplies inside there were three others behind them and more camels packed with members of Fairy Tail and more supplies, Natsu was driving this caravan pulled by two donkeys. In the next few kilometres they will split off so not to attract attention as suck a large group. Cana and Bacchus had been put in charge of separating everyone into groups of seven and evenly as they can of fighters and defenders all the while making sure not to look suspicious.
Levy was put in the care of Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, Laxus, and Wendy, Cana had Bacchus, Gildarts, Nab, Laki, Warren, and Juvia with her, Gramps had Ren, Sherry, Eve, Kinana, Ever and Elfman. Mavis was in charge of the other group with, Romeo, Freed, Bixlow, Lisanna, Droy, Max and the three felines, Lily, Happy and Carla. Jet had gone back to Erza they would no longer be communicating via him they would have to look out for themselves and meet up in the village of Magnolia in five days' time.
So, Levy prepared for the long journey, she truly was excited though because she would be able to see the towns they passed and maybe even go into one if she wore a disguise she was sure that would be okay. Gray who Levy had never seen with a shirt on was riding a camel alongside their caravan, Laxus was on the other side with Gajeel bringing up the rear when they split up, Wendy was sitting up front with Natsu.
The only things Levy had were in a small trunk, the two books Freed had given her inside with the clothes Lucy had gotten for her. She hadn't said anything after talking to Laxus she decided it wasn't that important and everyone was more worried about being discovered by those Lords.
Jet had told her their names, Lord Zeref a dark haired man wearing black robes who wasn't afraid to threaten people, Lord Sting a blond man with a pet meerkat who kept on whining and Lord Rouge another dark haired man who was very quiet, he had a desert fox with him. Their bodyguards were Zancrow and Cobra, one had long blond hair and a 'crazy' look in his eyes according to Jet and Cobra, he only had one eye the other had a long scar across it, he had marron coloured hair. The bounty hunters were Jellal, a dark blue haired man with a red tattoo over one eye and Lyon a silver haired man with dark eyes and white robes, Jet told her this so if she saw anyone like this she should avoid them.
"Hey, were coming up on a town soon" Natsu calls back to them.
"Okay!" Lucy calls back.
"Can I see it?" Levy asks, Lucy bites her lip.
"I'm not sure…maybe?"
"Lu!" Levy begged.
"I'll get a hood for you" Lucy concedes.
"Yes!" she cheers, Lucy smiles rolling her eyes and goes to one of the bags pulling out a hood, she hands it to Levy, walking to the front to talk to Natsu.
"Natsu when we get to the town, I'm taking Princess Levy in"
"That may not be a good idea" Natsu says hesitantly.
"I know but she really wants to see, she's never been more than a few streets out of the palace" Natsu nods understanding.
"Okay but we can't all go in and someone needs to look after the caravan, camels and the donkeys" Lucy nods in agreement though Natsu can't see focusing on the road.
"Well you should be one of the ones to stay"
"Why?" he asks honestly confused Lucy smiles at his ignorance.
"So we don't draw attention to the pink haired man"
"It's salmon" he mumbles Lucy laughs
"You've been found out by the Lords, we can't risk people recognising you, Gajeel
should stay too he'll stand out to much"
"Then Gray and Laxus will go with you?"
"Yeah"
"What about me?" Wendy asks.
"You can come too, having a younger girl might make us less conspicuous" Lucy says, Wendy smiles and nod, Lucy goes back to Levy who heard everything, she had the hood wrapped around her, hiding her figure and with the hood up would hide her face.
"I feel like a rouge Princess" she admits.
"You look like it" Lucy agrees, Levy laughs and excitedly waits for the caravan to stop.
"Alright we are only going to be here for twenty minutes, rest the camels and donkeys, water and feed them and get more feed from the town, Princess you will be on my left at all times, Gray you will protect our backs, Lucy on her other side and Wendy keep close, I'm not searching for you if you go missing" Laxus says gruffly.
"Yes you will" Wendy says with a smile, Laxus's mouth twitches.
"Don't worry I'll be close" she promises.
"Natsu, Gajeel look after everything, do not draw attention and do not fight" Laxus
tells them Natsu rolls his eyes, Gajeel just grunts his arms folded.
"Whatever" Laxus leads the small party, Levy had her hood up and excitedly followed him towards the town, Lucy right beside her and Gray following with Wendy.
"I expected them to be happier" Levy says, walking through the town, Laxus was heading for a feed shop, Levy was trailing just behind him with Lucy at her side.
"This place is better than most" Laxus says without turning back, Levy looks to the people milling around, she spotted a few beggars and a lot of people who hadn't washed in a long time, Levy told herself not to cover her nose, that would be rude.
"The biggest problem in towns like this is water supply" Lucy says.
"They don't have a well?"
"No, they have to rely on rations from the other towns"
"That's not fair, can't they build one?"
"I'm sure they have a tank somewhere to collect what little rainfall they get, and to store the rations but it's not always so simple as to build a well, if there isn't water under the ground, there's no use and transporting water is very hard" Levy understands but it still seemed so unfair.
How could I help them?
Levy wonders, suddenly a beggar threw himself in front of them, Levy touches Laxus's arm gently before he drew his sword, Levy goes to the man kneeling down to him but keeping her face hidden.
"Can we help you sir?" she asks.
"Could you spare some food? Or water miss?" he asks, Levy nods, holding her hand out to Lucy, she hands her a water skin and Levy gives it to the man, Wendy dug into her bag, bringing out some bread she hands some of it to the man.
"Bless you kind souls" the man says if he wasn't so dehydrated he would have been crying, Levy looks over the other people there were at least a dozen spread out, Levy took the bread from Wendy and started spreading it out, the group of Fairy Tail had no choice but to go with her, after all the food Wendy had was gone and the water they'd spread out had been passed out, Levy reluctantly followed Laxus to the feed store, he bought the feed, Laxus and Gray carried it, Wendy putting the smaller food in her bag they left the town, Natsu and Gajeel waited impatiently.
"What took so long?" Natsu asks, Laxus throws the feed at him, he catches it with an 'oof'.
"Princess are you okay?" he asks.
"I'm fine" she says steeping into the caravan, Lucy sighs.
"This is why I didn't want her to come" she says softly.
"It's better she knows" Gray says.
"We don't have enough food or water to feed and hydrate every town we visit" Lucy says.
"I know" he says.
"We'll refill the water at the next town it has a well" Laxus says.
"Leave in five" he say, going to the camels.
"So what happened?" Gajeel asks.
"Princess Levy saw a different side of life for the first time, I think it's just shocked her, she'll be fine" Gray says, Gajeel nods helping with the feed, Natsu gets back to the caravan, Lucy climbs back in and Wendy slips next to Natsu at the front.
"So do we still have any food?" Natsu asks.
"Yeah what's on the camels, Princess Levy gave what was in my bag to the beggars"
"Doesn't she know there are far worse off towns?"
"Of course not, she's the Princess" Wendy says. Levy heard them clearly and looked down ashamed, she took off her hood.
Worse off towns?
She had never seen such poor conditions and there where worse places? Levy didn't talk to Lucy for the next few hours, they reached another town but Levy didn't go out, Lucy stayed with her but stepped outside to stretch her legs, Laxus, Gray and Wendy had gone for water, Natsu was happily snacking on some food and Gajeel was checking the animal's shoes so they weren't causing any discomfort.
I really don't know anything about my country
Levy thinks sadly, closing her eyes.
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