"Just one little job please?" Blue smile sweetly with her hands clasped together. She and her brother were walking into the guildhall for the morning.
Gray rolled his eyes and replied, "No way, you know what the doctor said."
Blue's shoulders slumped and she said, "But I gotta make money, please? I'll pick something easy!"
"Not a chance." Gray said, "If you're so bored, help rebuild the guild. Looks like they've got their work cut out for them."
A tarp fell down on top of Wakabah who was smoking his pipe as per usual and the tarp caught fire. Macao laughed as his friend was struggling to get out of the mess.
"That's a good way to stop smoking." Macao snorted.
Cana put down her beer and said, "Or a good way to burn down our temporary guild hall."
Macao used his purple flames to put out the fire and sat with Cana at her table; eventually Wakabah freed himself and joined them too.
Gray joined Natsu and Lucy at the bar while Blue noticed a familiar blonde muscle head. She put a little more pep in her step and walked over to him.
"Hi Laxus!" Blue smiled excitedly, it had been so long since she's seen her teacher. The lightning dragon slayer was sitting at his table alone so Blue sat next to him.
Laxus frowned at her and said, "About time you got here brat, heard you got hurt pretty bad from Phantom. How pathetic! To think one of their guild members took down 4 of ours." He glared at Jet and Droy from across the room.
"I don't know why I even bothered to teach you." He scoffed and crossed his arms.
Blue frowned slightly and said, "I'm sorry Laxus, I'll train harder and practice more. I won't make you look bad."
She bowed low to Laxus who laughed, "Yeah? You promise?"
Blue's small lips quirked upward and nodded her head enthusiastically. "Of course I promise!"
Laxus grinned and replied, "Good, then I guess we ought to do some more training. Can't have my only student be complete losers like the rest of the guild."
Blue frowned and lifted her head hesitantly. She didn't agree at all with Laxus' statement but she did not want to argue with her arrogant teacher. Suddenly, a crash sounded through the room as Erza stood in front of them.
"Why don't you tell the other's how you feel?!" She yelled at Laxus.
Even though the whole guild went silent and everyone's eyes were on them, Laxus only chuckled more.
He said, "I have no problem telling 'em, what I think of 'em. This guild is full of losers and weaklings, especially the three of these morons."
He held up Blue by her shirt and turned to look at Jet and Droy. Lazus continued, "Phantom used you as personal punching bags. I'm still training this one-." He shook Blue in the air. "But you two-." He pointed to the Shadow gear male members. "-I'm glad I never even bothered to learn your names."
Gray took a step forward as Blue was being held like a ragdoll. He didn't want to fight Laxus but if he had to he would.
"And the worst of all-."He smirked at Lucy. "-little miss wannabe wizard. This is all your fault."
Mirajane cut him off, "Laxus! Would you shut up! The master said nobody was to be held accountable. Not even you who couldn't even be bothered to show up!"
Blue grimaced from her position in Laxus' hold. "I have to do something…his ego is out of control!" She thought. "He's always been a bit narcissistic but this isn't like him!"
She charged up her magic in her body slowly, hoping Laxus wouldn't notice. She knew she had to do something.
Laxus exclaimed, "Stop your whining, that fight had nothing to do with me! But if I had been there you wouldn't be drowning your sorrows in this pile of rubble right now!"
"Why you-."
"I've had enough of you!" Natsu exclaimed and sent a fire dragon punch at Laxus and Blue.
Gray stepped up, "Wait Natsu!" He tripped him using ice magic.
Laxus evaded his attack with ease, going so fast he appeared beside him as if nothing had happened.
Natsu exclaimed, "What the hell Gray!"
"He's holding onto Blue, you idiot!" Gray exclaimed.
Laxus laughed loudly, "Things are going to be a whole lot different when I inherit the guild. Say goodbye to fairy tail kids, 'cuz you losers are gunna have to find a different place to hang out."
The blonde mage transported with his lightning, bringing the charged up Blue with him, to the top of a hill that over looked Magnolia.
Laxus tossed the younger girl to the ground and said, "It's lucky that you were charging your lightning for our escape." He smirked at her.
"He knows exactly what I was trying to do…" She thought. Blue stood up and stretched out her limbs. She said, "You don't really think that way about the guild, do you?"
Laxus didn't drop his smirk as he said, "So what if I do? Nevermind that. Your failure is unacceptable; I say we kick your training up a notch."
He crackled his knuckles as Blue widened her eyes. "What have I gotten myself into?"
Blue collapsed onto her bed later that week due to sheer exhaustion. Groaning aloud she wondered how long this would last. Not only was Laxus testing her old spells, he was teaching her new ones and doing endurance training too. And though she hated to admit it, she wished she would have listened to her brother when he suggested staying low longer after she was hurt.
Laxus was training her into the ground but she knew that in the long run, he was right. Blue barely lit a candle compared to her comrades; she knew to keep up with them she would have to train twice as hard.
"Uhhhgggg." She groaned in pain. "But I'm soooo tired!"
The white haired girl reached for the note hidden under her pillow and gripped it tenderly. "Lyon, I wonder where you are? Why haven't you written me yet? It's kinda weird, annoying even…having to wait for you." She thought of her childhood friend fondly. "When will I see you again? And when I do…what will I say?"
Blue was surprised out of her thoughts by a knock at her door. She was too exhausted to stand so she exclaimed, "Come in!"
Erza opened the door and put her hand on her hip, "Really? Yelling come in? What if I were a bandit, or malicious gang member come to kill you?"
Blue smiled from her spot on the bed, "Well are you?"
Erza rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "I guess you'll never know." Her lips twitched upwards. The red head added, "I'm meeting Lucy at the bath house, would you like to accompany us?"
Blue shook her head back and forth and said, "Yes but no."
Erza quirked her brow, "I'm sorry?"
"I want to- but I'm too tired to move." She whined.
Erza smiled and said, "Oh is that all? That's no problem."
She picked up Blue with ease and swung her over her shoulder.
"Uh Erza…won't this look a little odd going down the street?" Blue noted lightly.
Erza continued walking, "Just pretend to be my kill."
"How does that make it look better?!" She thought and began to laugh.
"Dead people do not laugh!"
"I'm -sorry!" Blue apologized through giggle spurts.
At the bath house Lucy was already in the bath when Erza and Blue arrived in their towels. Both females shamelessly shed their towels and sank into the warm water.
"Not even a little modesty girls?" Lucy snickered.
Erza grinned, "You were the one who told me I looked just as good without my armor as I do with."
"Master Ur taught me to not be ashamed of my body, no matter what it looks like." Blue winked and stuck out her tongue.
Lucy nodded and said, "I guess that makes sense, especially with Gray's stripping habit and all."
The girls giggled and chatted in their bath for some time. Eventually the conversation turned towards Blue's relationship with Laxus.
"How can you even stand to be around that jerk?" Lucy asked Blue.
Blue shrugged and chose not to respond. Erza said, "Don't tell me you have romantic feelings for him?"
Blue shook her head and said, "No not romantic, but I do have feelings for him. He's my teacher and I respect him. Though his behavior recently…"
She frowned and crossed her arms over her chest. She continued, "His arrogance is going to ruin him. He's incredibly strong and doesn't realize that it's not everything. I worry for his future."
Lucy crossed her arms and raised her right brow, "While you worry about him should we worry about you?"
Blue caught both girls eyes and froze before asking, "What are you talking about?"
"The bruises all over your body, did Laxus do those?" Lucy asked.
Blue felt a surge of negative emotion sweep through her body. She stood up suddenly and defensively cried, "Laxus is only teaching me to be stronger! These are nothing compared to how much I've improved, and I'm not going to turn my back on him."
Uncharacteristically upset she left the bath and got dressed. With damp hair she stormed to the tree Laxus spends his time at and found him sitting below it, staring back up at the sky.
"I'm ready to train again!" She exclaimed. She was huffing from running all the way up the hill and demanded time with Laxus.
Laxus raised his eyebrows at the hysteric girl and said, "We're done training for today, come back tomorrow."
"No!" She exclaimed with force. "I can take it, I need to become stronger! This is the way!"
Laxus rolled his eyes and pulled her down to the ground, "Just sit and shut up ya brat, you're ruining the show."
Blue looked up and noticed several shooting stars going across the sky. "Laxus?"
Laxus sat her next to him and said, "I said shut up."
The lightning elemental mage nodded and watched the meteor shower with him in silence. Later, after the final star had fallen; Blue was feeling much calmer than how she arrived and had forgotten all about wanting to train at that moment.
Laxus broke the silence and said, "I don't need ya following me around like this. What's your problem?"
The pale girl's face flushed pink and shrugged slowly.
"It's not like you to be so upset. It's annoying." Laxus muttered.
Blue half smiled and said, "I'm worried about you."
The lightning dragon slayer narrowed his eyes at her but didn't say anything.
Blue continued, "You're pushing everyone you care about away from you and it's working. Is this what you really want?"
"Why would I want to be surrounded by such weaklings?" He countered easily.
There was silence between the two. Blue knew that it made no sense to try and reason with Laxus, she couldn't be the one to get through to him; at least not yet. She figured she would say one last thing, "You've changed Laxus."
Laxus 'tsk'ed and said, "Yeah, someone had to."
There was no talk after that. The two of them stayed under that tree, dozing on and off until sunrise. After that they parted ways, agreeing they'd pick up on training tomorrow.
Blue stared up at her ceiling from her bed, Lyon's note in her hands. After a while she groaned and said aloud, "I need to take a vacation."
"Everything is so complicated- why can't things just be simple?" She mused. "I can't afford a vacation; maybe I should figure out something fun to do instead."
Blue sat up in her bed and exclaimed, "That's it!"
"Time to get planning!"