I am back, not dead! Here is an extra long chapter to compensate.
I do not own Fairytale... it is a sad, sad day.
"Princess Hisui and Yukino?" Evergreen clarified before muttering something about the fairy Queen.
"They are the only two Celestial mages we know the location of. If you can find Angel talk to her to." Makarov confirmed.
The thunder legion was crammed into his office taking orders for their mission. Normally this would be done in the open area of the second floor but Makarov wanted to be sure there were no curious ears, or Mira, spying. For some reason they had all insisted on being here instead of just Laxus and Freed. While this tickled the Master's interest he had more important things to discuss.
"Luckily both are on good terms with fairy tail, are personal friends with lucy, and can keep their mouths shut if need be." Laxus nodded. "Good. This," Makarov held out a piece of paper. Freed quickly snatched up. "Is everything I managed to get from Loke."
Freed studied the paper for a minute. "This just creates more question than answers."
"Yes but it is a direction to start looking. This," Makarov pulled a dark blue journal with yellow stars. "As far as I can tell, is everything Lucy knows about celestial magic. It got left here after yesterday's incident."
Bixlow started laughing when Freed's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. "About yesterday does anyone know what possessed cosplayer to train in the guild? Everyone was terrified she was going to blow the place up. Hell she was even sparken there for a while!" Bixlow snickered. Freed was now frantically flipping through Lucy's notebook muttering to himself.
"From what Mira has told me, It sounds like her spirit insisted she train there. Now Freed." The green haired mage reluctantly tore his eyes away from Lucy's journal and acknowledged the Makarov. "You can not take that book with you." He said pointing ad the starry note book. "That book, need to be here when Lucy come looking for it. Do you understand?"
"Of course Master Makarov" Freed grind. Making a copy of Lucy's notebook would be simple. It would also give him an opportunity to rearrange and categorize the messy notes.
"Do not let information go unnecessarily. We still don't understand how those rules work. That being said, don't push for information that Princess Hisui and Yukino don't wish to give for the same reasons." Laxus nodded. "I am going to ask Lucy about to clarify some of those parameters when she realises her book is gone, and I will let you know what I find." There was a general nod around the room.
"Good!" Makarov declared, slamming his palms into his desk. "You will be leaving first thing tomorrow, Princess Hisui and Yukino already know you are coming but I have not told them much else. Here is a communication lacrima." Evergreen took the clear crystal. "Stay in touch. I am hoping this does not take long. There is unrest and rumors flying around up north it might be nothing but we may need all hands on deck."
Lucy awoke to the sound of arguing. She was not all that surprised when she found herself in her own bed or to find happy sleeping beside her. She had seen Natsu just before she passed out so it was more than likely that he would have taken her home. There were however, a few things that surprised her in this situation.
The first was that Natsu was not beside her, She was a little disappointed she would not be able to deliver her famous Lucy Kick. The second was that whoever was arguing in the next room was attempting to be quite. Normally when a fight or argument broke out in her apartment there was little care given to whether or not she, or anyone else in the neighborhood, was asleep. The third was that she was extremely hungry. She had just eaten not to long ago.
Carefully she slipped out of bed and creped to the door, curiosity winning over hunger. Chances were one of the people arguing was Natsu. She you could never be too careful with dragon slayers heightened scenes. Also waking Happy up was something she did not want to deal with. Finally Lucy got close enough to hear the wiper, shouted argument.
"That is not good enough!" That was Natsu as expected, now who is he talking to?
"I already told you we are just helping her find Aquarius. We are just doing what she asks." What, that is Loke? And they are talking about her? What is going on?
"BULL SHIT! That might be it for now but we both know there is more to it than that."
"What would you know Dragneel?"
"I may be obligatory... Shit Obivoian... no that is not it Obivial what word did Lucy use? obviosous?"
"... obvious"
"Yah that I may be obvious but I am not stupid. I see the way her spirits treat her. I felt her magic when she brought me back. Something is going on and you need to tell me what it is." Lucy, peeled herself off of the door. The argument was growing in volume and she wanted to be ready to move just incase.
"Like I said I can't tell you." The smell of smoke started to fill the air. Lucy needed to stop this before this turned into an all out brawl and her apartment got destroyed... again.
"Like I said THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" All whispering had been forgotten.
"I AM JUST TRYING TO HELP HER!" Lucy creeped across the room as quickly as she could.
"AND I AM JUST TRYING TO PROTECT HER!"
"AFTER EVERYTHING YOU STILL THINK SHE IS THE ONE WHO NEEDS PROTECTION?!" She carefully crawled into bed hoping and praying that she didn't wake up the still sleeping cat.
"YOU KNOW IT IS NOT LIKE THAT!" Here goes nothing
"WOULD YOU BOTH SHUT UP I AM TRYING TO SLEEP!"
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Lucy desperately tried to hide her smirk as the door burst open and Natsu and Loke came running in. With a simultaneous "LUCY!".
"Lucy you are awake!" Natsu cried smothering her in a hug.
"We were getting so worried." Loke continued adding to the hug.
"What are you talking about. Of course I am awake." Lucy gaspt struggling to breath under the weight of their combined embrace.
"LUCY!" apparently all the commotion had woken up happy. "You were asleep for so long I was starting to get scared but Carla and Wendy said you were fine." He somehow found a piece of her that was not currently being smothered and added to the group hug.
"Waite.. Wendy and Carla.. HOW LONG WAS I ASLEEP?" She gasped. Lucy must have been turning blue in the face because Loke let go and Natsu and Happy loosened their hold.
"Three days." Loke decided to clarify. " Natsu went and got them when you didn't wake up after a few hours. They said that you just used to much magic and you would be fine."
"Lucy don't do that again who else is gonna give me fish!" Happy cried after some shuffling around he was seated hugging her chest while Natsu was hugging her from behind. "No one else's fish are as good as yours."
"I am sorry I will be more careful next time." Lucy did feel guilty. She shouldn't have made every one worry like that. While Natsu remained quiet she felt his embrace tightened.
"Well I am glad you are okay princess. I should go let everyone else know you are alright." The Lion spirit waved.
"Thank you Loke! " and with that the spirit disappeared into golden light.
There was a few minutes of silence before Natsu finally spoke. "You are not going to stop are you." His voice was low and quiet, it sounded almost sad. It was strange hearing that tone from Natsu.
Lucy bit her lip. She really didn't want to worry anyone but at the same time she had to find Aquarius. Was there any way to make him understand? She had already explained the situation to Natsu though he probably was not listening. "No but I said I will be more careful and I will."
Natsu let out a sigh. "Okay tell me what you are trying to do." And just like that Natsu was back to his usual upbeat overly energetic self, jumping on the rest of the way on the bed, nearly knocking Lucy off in the process.
Lucy wanted to bang her head against the wall. He hadn't been listening when he explained everything. "I have already told you what I am trying to do besides I am hungry."
"FISH!" Happy cried starting to drool at the mear thought.
"You can tell me over dinner then. We kind of eat all of your food, besides I was not paying attention before and if you are going to keep this up I want to know what is going on." Natsu grinned as he hopped back out of bed.
Lucy felt strangely honored. Normally at the mention of food all other thoughts were discarded. Natsu must be serious about trying to understand. "Okay."
"YAY FISH!" Happy yelped sprouting wings and flying around the room.
Natsu frowned scratching the back of his head. "You should start from the beginning though... Like which one of your crazy spirits is Aquarius... and why do you need to find her."
The second half of that was not Natsu's fault. Lucy still hadn't told the guild exactly what had happened at Tartaros. The most anyone knew was that Lucy had done something at the battle of Tartaros and as a result the Alegria was undone and she no longer possessed Aquarius's key. Maybe it was time to finally explain what happened.
"Isn't she the scary fish lady?" Lucy felt her blood start to boil.
"O. Yah, the one who likes to wash people away." This was going to be a long conversation.
It was dusk, the sun's wrath has long since abandoned the mountain village and the cold wind whistled between the housed. The smell of grass and honeysuckle floated on the breeze as the street lamps cast eerie flickering shadows along the road.
There were only three fingers visible the rest of the villagers having fled for shelter. Two stood together. An old man, who looked around sixty, long silver hair and a black cloak. A boy in his early twenties, was off to his righ. He had a red shirt, and blue hair that matched his eyes. Both had golding rings with silver keys hanging from their belts.
The third was facing them, thirty-five ish, with wavy brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He had a sword in hand and a bloodthirsty grin split his face has he took in his surroundings.
"It's rel' intresten'. All ya' gota' do is ta' wave a sword around and yell that yer' a mage and all the little lambs go runnen', leven' me with da' ones I'm looken for. See I aint' much use against the livestock. I gota' weapon but it's mostly fer' show."
The young man seemed to have enough of the apparent villain taunts by this point. "IDENTIFY YOURSELF! WHAT DO YOU WANT!" He yelled much louder than was really necessary.
"Now that aint' none of yer' concern. What does matter is that yer' Aaron and that is Moses and tha' boss man gave me yer' names all specific. That means you gata' die for sure, not just maybe. As long as that gets done, I get ta' have some fun."
"Don't get cocky." Aaron snapped. "We aren't going down without a fight!" He declared taking a step forward only to be stopped by Moses's hand on his arm.
"Who sent you?" Moses queried.
The other man grinned. "Ya' already know that else I wouldn't be here."
To Aaron's apparent confusion and horror Moses nodded. "You must be Cain then."
Cain's smirked "It's no wonder boss man wants ya' dead."
"Master who is this?" Aaron whispered.
Moses just ignored him. "We have the same magic and you don't have much skill though you carry a swards, you can not hurt us."
Moses voice was calm as ever but Cain just grinned wider. "Ya' should know he wouldn't send me unless he knew ya would end up dead."
"Drego!" Moses called. A huge red chinese style dragon appeared in a shower of sparks. The dragon quickly encircled the two celestial mages threading its body in between street lamps and houses.
"Not bad old man. I can see why yer' a master." Cain was suddenly in between Moses and Aaron. "But that aint' gona' save ya'" As suddenly as he was there Cain was gone.
Aaron was scremin and it felt like the wind was knocked out of Moses lungs as Drego evaporated into the night.
Aaron's screaming ceced as an explosion of power erupted from where his body had once been, the only thing remaining a few pieces of tattered cloth and ash.
Moses was struggling to breath and could feel his body starting to shut down. He felt someone kneel beside him and a hand on his forehead. He managed to crack an eye open to see a woman with curly purple hair and bright green eyes next to him.
"Josie." He panted.
"I am here. I there anything I can do?" He could feel her tears falling on his face, her voice was unsteady.
"Too late." he managed to huff. "The keys...my books"
"No! You are going to be okay!" She was desperately trying to find anything wrong with the old mage but there were visible injuries.
"Keep them together... Hidden" He went on ignoring her foolish hopes. She had started sobbing by this point. "Lucy Heartfilia...will come... After this" He stopped to pant, the world was going dark around the edges and his fingers were numb. "Eventually...Only her...give them...only to her " more panting ensued as the madge desperately tried to hold on to consciousness. "You are...like a daughter... to me..." He could feel the last of his energy leaving his body "I...I love you"
And that Moses died leaving the sobbing woman alone in the cold.
KaixinPhoenix ~ I have a new and improved version of chapter 5 up if you are interested. Thank you so much for sticking with my story!
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Good luck with the beginning of a new school year. I hope all of my minions have a wonderful weak!
