"Miss Lucy it seems one of your interviews has arrived." Lucy looked up as someone handed her a stack of questions and information. "He's quite a short spoken person but i'm sure you can get him to talk!"
Lucy looked surprised at the mention of 'He' and looked through the questions, nearly stopping at the name Laxus.
"Hmpf. Somehow i'm not surprised by the smaller quarters." Laxus came in, wearing a long brown cloak and having to duck into the room.
"Uh Laxus. This is…. A surprise." Lucy said surprised.
"Been a while blondie." Laxus said.
"A little more than a while. What brings you in. Last i looked you're not really a publicity kinda person." Lucy said surprised.
"Your Ros's friend. I was wondering if you knew where she went after the old man disbanded the guild." Laxus said simply.
"Well… Afraid i can't actually say much on that." Lucy sighed.
"That's better than most of the answers i've gotten." Laxus gurmbled.
"That's the thing. Most of it's classified." Lucy sighed.
"Well what can you tell me?" Laxus asked.
"She's gone back to Alvarez. Back to the Spriggans." Lucy said. Laxus huffed crossing his arms.
"Great…." Laxus grumbled.
"The rest i'm allowed to say just not… well… here. Spriggan right to privacy and all. Also nobody can get into Alvarez lately." Lucy sighed.
"Well i'll be in town for a few days, if you want to meet up somewhere, where you can share." Laxus said. "As i've caught wind of. The ports have been really strict. lots of searches for ships that go to their ports."
"It's been really annoying. It's a total lockdown." Lucy sighed. "I've got a place here in town. You can stay there."
"Very. For those who want answers and for those who don't." Laxus huffed. "Sure i guess."
"Before the cutoff there was a lot of talk of the emperor building up the army." Lucy sighed.
"Which only confirms my suspicions." Laxus sighed. "I don't think Fiore will be living in peace for much longer."
"Doesn't help that there's a lot of false reports on Ros. People seem to think she was the Fairy Tail leak." Lucy sighed.
"Ros wouldn't do that." Laxus huffed. "Wish i knew who it was tho."
"I have a few suspicions." Lucy sighed.
"One thing i have caught wind of is. The emperor isn't there but somehow giving commands and the Spriggans are following them." Laxus sighed. "Don't know where he is or how he's doing it."
"You think Zeref split and ran?" Lucy said.
"If anything, he's not really a coward." Laxus grumbled. "He is probably getting info or something. I'm not sure."
"Here i had hoped you'd be the man with the answers." Lucy sighed.
"Was hoping you had more information than i did honestly." Laxus sighed. "I ask around every mission i go on."
"If i might ask… Where have you been." Lucy asked.
"For a while i've been training." Laxus sighed. "Now, just trying to get information from wherever the wind carries me."
"Last time we saw you you could barely walk. Now you're fine. Something obviously happened." Lucy sighd.
"I got help let's just say that." Laxus said. "You have any clue where the thunder legion ended up? I want to drop by and tell them hey."
"Last i heard. Blue Pegasus." Lucy said.
"Ah. See they got some kind of work for them." Laxus said. "Any news on the others?"
"Ah… No word from Erza honestly. Natsu's up and gone. Mira and Lisanna and Elfman are waiters." Lucy said. "Roslyn… well there was a lot of talk of her army marching through and seizing cities. And she killed one of their leaders when he wouldn't hand everything over."
"I'm sure Natsu's fine last i saw him he was. Erza she's her she'll be fine. Good to hear." Laxus said. "Ah i'm sure there's got to be some reason for that kind of action. Just wish i knew what it was."
"And she wiped out one town when they wouldn't simply just hand over their food and supplies." Lucy said worried.
"Alvarez is definitely getting ready for an attack." Laxus said worriedly.
"The question is are you going fight her?" Lucy asked.
"I'll fight everyone else, but her…. I'm not sure i could." Laxus said.
"How… how did things end with you guys. I mean she left without a word…" Lucy said.
"I'm not going to share that." Laxus said looking saddened.
"Things ended for real i guess?" Lucy said.
"Yes." Laxus mumbled sadly.
"I'm shocked actually. You two were kinda the power couple of Fairy Tail. Big brother and Big sister." Lucy said.
"It was for the best. He could use us against each other if we were still together." Laxus mumbled.
"It doesn't sound like you think it's for the best though." Lucy said worried.
"I don't like feeling like i am going to have to fight her when they attack. But i know what she meant when she left. Doesn't mean i don't still have feelings for her." Laxus grumbled.
"You want to get her back huh." Lucy said sadly.
"Of course." Laxus huffed. "Just like how i want Fairy Tail back."
"Lax, i want to warn you. If she really is doing this…." Lucy said worried. "She may not want to-"
"I know she doesn't want to. I know Ros." Laxus said.
"Lax i know you love her but, she may just be doing this of her own will." Lucy said.
"No she wouldn't do this sort of stuff if he wasn't ordering her to." Laxus hissed.
"You think he's ordering her?" Lucy said worriedly. "But why. How? What does he get out of her?"
"I don't know what he's getting out of it. But i can't believe that Ros would do that on her own free will." Laxus huffed.
"I don't know. You were the one sleeping with her. I figured she'd tell you everything." Lucy sighed leaning back in her seat.
"She didn't because i never asked." Laxus huffed.
"Well you should have asked. Maybe we wouldn't be in this situation." Lucy sighed.
"Never thought we would." Laxus growled.
"Laxus. A lot of stuff happened that never should have. We never thought Makarov would ditch us. We never thought Zeref would ditch us." Lucy sighed. "Everything's gone to hell and nothing we could do about it."
"There's always something. You just have to find it." Laxus said.
"Well. Technically you were guildmaster. So what do we do." Lucy said.
"Right now all we can do is gather information. We need to figure out what their intentions are." Laxus said. "And we need to find everyone."
"And what. You're going to be the one to do it." Lucy said.
"I'm trying to figure out Alvarez's intention." Laxus said
"Hmm. Well if we can find Natsu that question will be answered." Lucy said.
"Haven't seen him since i stopped training with him and Chloe." Laxus said.
"So that's where Chloe went." Lucy said.
"Yeah. Natsu was training under her. As weird of a match that is." Laxus said.
"Fire learning from Ice? Okay now you're joking." Lucy chuckled.
"Wish i was." laxus said.
"Anyway. This is where i'm staying. If you want to visit Freed and the bunch go ahead." Lucy said pushing a card with directions on it. "You can find the place… i hope. Or at least not end up a repeat of the grocery incident."
"I'm not that bad." Laxus grumbled taking the card.
"You don't still ah… smoke do you?" Lucy said looking disapproving.
"Not any more." Laxus said
"Oh right…. Your lungs." Lucy said.
"Yeah." Laxus huffed
"That didn't ever get fixed huh." Lucy said as Laxus turned away to cough into his hand. After the small coughing ft laxus growled.
"What do you think." Laxus hissed.
"Sorry. Sorry." Lucy said backing off. "Well um… thanks for the visit."
"No problem. Your one of the easier to find you know." Laxus chuckled weakly.
"I haven't been trying to hide." Lucy said with a smile. "It was good to see you. It's good to see you're alive."
"Obviously." Laxus said rolling his eyes. "Same to you blondie. I don't plan to die anytime soon."
"I certainly hope not. I'd like to believe there's at least one Dreyar i can trust not to die on me." Lucy said with a smile as Laxus moved to leave.
"If Fairy Tail comes back I'll come back to lead it. I'd just be wrong for anyone else to." Laxus said
"Not that you'd let anyone else." Lucy chuckled. "Oh i actually did see Ros one time. Stopped by to say hi, like you did." Lucy said quickly picking a packet of paper out.
"Really?" Laxus said surprised.
"Yeah… she's really been flashing that Alvarez mark around a lot lately. Plus a change of outfit." Lucy said pulling out a picture, seemingly taken recently. Laxus walked back over to the desk to look. Lucy had taken it with Roslyn, Roslyn having definitely changed outfits into tight fitting black armor, kind of like her demon form armor. And right on her arm was the Alvarez mark, in a pretty pink color. She'd also changed her hair from brown and pink to just pink. Laxus sighed seeing the picture.
"Kind of reminds me of something Makarov told her. 'Don't let the demon dictate you'. I think she may have ignored that warning." Lucy sighed.
"Yeah." Laxus chuckled.
"Oh and the papers…. Something about reversing the negating magic you have or something along that line." Lucy sighed.
"Really?" Laxus said surprised.
"Yeah. I couldn't make any sense of it, but maybe you can." Lucy said handing the papers. "Keep the picture too."
"I can always try." Laxus said taking the papers. "Thanks"
"It was nice seeing you again… big brother." Lucy said with a smile as Laxus ducked out of the office.` He stared at the picture on his way out, not even glancing at anyone else.
'Ros…. where are you. What are they doing to you right now." Laxus thought worried.