After three painful days, the guild was finally at ease. The Sabertooth members had left to go back to their guild to pack their bags so that all of them could meet directly in Clover town after three days. The departure of the rival guild members had brought the previous calmness and sense of ease over the members and the usual activities were back in full force. Levy sat at the back of the guild, reading as usual but today no words made it inside her head.
Last night she spent her time at Lu-chan's place after leaving the guild together when Lucy asked her to help her gather all the information she could regarding the new mission that has been assigned to them. Levy was used to Gajeel going on missions for the master for long period of time, and she was never going to admit it but she missed the Iron head when he was gone and levy knew why. She was not stupid and obviously, she loved to read. When she came to know Natsu and about his magic, even at the age of 10, Levy gathered all the information about the magic that she could. She knew about their magic, their appetite, their hunger for their own element and their... mates.
Levy understood the signs according to the book, the loneliness when they were gone, the warm in their presence, the unavoidable attraction, noticing everything they do and even the pull that surrounded them when they sat together. No, Levy was not stupid and No, she was not going to ask him about it. If he had wanted to tell he would have, or maybe he is taking his time or whatever. It was not her element to understand, it was not her place to ask. Levy closed her book with a snap and stood up from her seat and gathered her stuff. Cana, Lisanna and Evergreen were gone on a mission and Wendy, Juvia and Lu-chan were bus packing and resting for their upcoming mission. Erza already left for Crocus for her mission. Laki and Kinana were helping Mira at the bar. Levy wanted to talk to someone but she didn't want to. She felt so confused with her own emotions.
Without another word, she walked out of the guild wanting to be alone to sort her thoughts out.
She was obviously right when she read that a Slayer notices everything because Gajeel watched her look at the book but not read, he saw the look of conflict and hurt swim in her brown eyes it made his heart clench painfully while his Dragon growled at him to soothe her. He was about to go sit next to her when she snapped her book shut and walked out of the guild. He didn't know what to do because his eyes shifted to where Mira was, looking in the direction where Levy just went, so if he followed she would know.
He clenched his fist and tried to calm his raging dragon. Gajeel looked away from the door and closed his eyes. He wanted to be there for her when she was hurt so Gajeel finally opened his eyes and morphed his body into the shadows and slipped out of the guild without being detected. He followed her scent and stopped in front of a cafe and looked inside to find her sitting in a corner stirring her, what he would guess was lemon tea. He walked inside and cursed at the doorbell alerting her to his presence. Gajeel maintained eye contact with her before sitting in front of her. Both of them said nothing just stared at each other.
Finally, Levy felt her sadness decrease a little just being in his presence and she managed to smile a small smile at him. Gajeel felt his lips tip a little and he leaned back in his chair. " Whatcha going here Shorty?" He looked at her shoulders tense a little and look down at the cup once again before she spoke. "I was feeling a little lonely at the guild so I was heading to the library." Her voice was above whispers, soft and Gajeel knew a lie when he heard one. Something was hurting his mate and he didn't like it.
"Well no need to feel Lonely Shorty, I am here ain't i?" He couldn't resist so he patted her head to feel her soft locks under his fingers. He loved when she blushed and his dragon settled down in his chest purring when she finally smiled at him.
yeah, call he whatever you want but Gajeel loved her, even if you called him whipped because he didn't give a fuck.
Lucy was sitting her backyard concentrating on her breathing as she felt her drown in her own essence as she became hardly aware of her surroundings and reach her magic container. She took deep breaths and concentrated on her magic and let herself be surrounded by the gold and now white swirls of magic and took a deep breath before gently pushing her magic out. She could feel her veins fill with magic and her skin warm up with the familiar tingling and she kept her breathing steady while she emptied her magic container. Capricorn had taught her it as a way to expand her magic. She felt the barriers stretch and she slowly drew back her magic, still unaware of her surroundings.
Laxus had been putting his clothes in his duffle bag when he felt the familiar magic reach him, almost as if willing him to follow it. He frowned and half jogged towards her house and stopped mid-run when he saw her sitting in the middle of her backyard her skin glowing a little as she took in deep breaths. Laxus felt his mouth turn dry and his eyes fixed on his mate when the magic pressure coming from her increased it made it hard for him to breath a little. He gasped when she levitated from the ground surrounded by golden and white swirls of her magic and Laxus felt like he was looking at a goddess. Her hair turned from golden blonde to platinum and laxus was momentarily stunned.
He watched her lower back on the ground as she absorbed her magic back in and all Laxus could do was stare. That's how she saw him when she opened her eyes, shirtless, in her backyard, staring at her with eyes and mouth both wide opened making her chuckle and swoon at the same time. Laxus closed his mouth and mentally cursed himself for ruining his 'i don't care' image momentarily. He saw her stand up and smile at him when she explained.
"Capricorn taught me how to expand my magic barrier with meditation so I was just refilling." She looked at him with a teasing smile and Laxus bit his lip trying not to smile back at her. His mate was amazing.
"damn it Blondie, I must say I am impressed," he smirked at her and his heart soared at her happy expression. She invited him inside to have a cup of coffee, and Laxus happily obliged. He liked to have her place smelling like him, so other Slayers knew that she belonged to him. Laxus sat in her kitchen and was smiling at her when a golden light engulfed in the kitchen and stood the ex fairy-tail member next to Lucy, completely ignoring Laxus.
"Princess! you must allow me to help you pack! i don't want you to be tired." Loke looked at Laxus with a smug look but it was soon gone when he saw the feral on his. Lucy picked up the spatula and hit Loke on his head and glared at him.
"How many times do i have to tell you not to pop up without warnings. Bad cat." She pulled his ear and Loke groaned making Laxus chuckle. Lucy shook her head and poured the coffee for Laxus in a cup and added half teaspoon of sugar in it and placed it in front of him with a smile before pouring milk and sugar in hers and sitting next to him and looking at Loke once again.
"So have you figured out a way we can disguise ourselves." Lucy took a sip from her cup and looked at her spirit with a smile. Loke pushed his glasses up his nose and cleared his throat. He nodded at his master before disappearing only to appear back in a second. He put a box on the table and sat down in front of the two blondes. Lucy opened the box and frowned to find ten threads inside it. She looked at her spirit questioningly who then explained.
"These threads are magically bound threads the spirit king arranged for his favourite mage." Loke smiled softly at Lucy who shook her head thinking about the moustache man. "One of the lost Spirits, Callisto, happens to be the king's friends and his speciality is disguise magic. The black threads are for the women and the white are for the men. The looks of the person wearing will change accordingly and the magic aura will change as well since dark mages can detect a person by studying their Aura." Loke then stood up and gave Lucy a small key holder. It was different from what she had and she sensed the magic in it.
"This is from us, your spirits. We decided that you needed a key holder which can come back to you. We know that you can summon us without the key but this is an extra precaution."
Laxus watched the Lion spirit talk to his mate with such gentleness and care, he almost forgave him for flirting with her. Almost. He looked at Lucy who took in all the information and thanked her spirit. But his admiration for her was beyond what anyone could even imagine. She has been thinking about how to execute the mission perfectly and has taken every measure to execute her plan. Not only did she had the perfect knowledge but also manage to take every measure in order to make it easy for everyone. She was smart, calculative, and composed about the entire mission. She did not even waver when she was told who had assigned them the mission. Lucy was beyond incredible...
Later that night Laxus sat in his room on the edge of his bed looking down at his palm. He has been thinking about it since the day she had left to train when finally a week later he snapped. He focused on his magic and saw the golden lightning in his hands turn blue making him grin.
The feeling he had felt when he realised that Lucy, his Lucy was kidnapped from under his nose during the war with the dragon had made his blood boil and he had felt something snap deep within him. He didn't even know what had happened until a week after she left. He was trying to release the pent-up anger and sent a bolt of lightning through the forest but to his horror and utmost surprise, the blow was not yellow but blue and so powerful it destroyed all the trees in its path. He was scared for a moment when he thought that something was wrong with him so he searched for answers for a month until he found the explanation in a small box that belongs to his piece of shit father.
The lacrima was from a dragon, But it had not been any ordinary lacrima, instead of magic, it contained the essence of the dragon and not any ordinary dragon! It was from, what even Natsu considered, a mythical white lightning dragon. What made him blanch was that the essence of the dragon meant that Laxus was far from an artificial dragon slayer because he had a living beast inside him.
He looked at his hands again and thought about lucy which made the said dragon purr and him chuckle. Yeah, he was as much in love with his mate as Laxus was. Both swearing that they would sacrifice their lives for her if they had to.