There's not much except for: sorry I haven't updated this story in a while. I do enjoy what I'm doing with this, but, seeing as this is my least popular of my stories, my other two stories are my main priorities on fanfiction, and I'm still not doing too good a job on those.
Anyway, the story is gonna start getting interesting from here on out. I know it's a little early, but I just couldn't wait 'til the next chapter to add in the interesting part. Or, at least the beginning of it.
I'll talk (type) more at the end.
The Adventures of Lucy Heartfilia; Chapter 02: Diana
Lucy was the first of the girls to turn. Most likely because the person who spoke had said Lucy's name.
It couldn't be, Lucy thought before she turned around completely and saw who had called her.
"Erza?" Lucy said, or most so asked.
"Yes?" The periodically frightening redhead responded.
"Wha-What are you doing here? I thought you were on a mission with the others." Lucy continued.
"Yeah," Said Cana, "What about that?"
"Well, in Natsu and Gray's typical, idiotic ways, they ended up destroying most of the town's shopping district. So, the mayor demanded we clean up." Before questioned could be asked on why Erza was there instead of cleaning, Erza persistently continued. "But, of course, none of that damage was caused by me; I decided I had no place in cleaning up, so I left Natsu and Gray to clean up."
Erza paused to breathe. During that pause, Levy took to talking, while Juvia began speak at the same time.
"Why wouldn't you bring my beloved Gray?" Juvia complained, while Levy began speaking.
"Well, why are you here and not back in Magnolia?" The script mage questioned.
"Hold on," The swordswoman said sternly, causing Levy to become even smaller as she shrunk in fear, "I was getting to that."
She sighed, and then continued, "I figured that I would reward myself while those two idiots cleaned up. I came here, to Kaec, because I heard it was here," Erza gestured to the town, "Where the recipe for the original strawberry cheesecake was made. It's also the cake capital of Fiore, and contender for cake capital of all of Earthland!" Becoming progressively more excited as she spoke, the people who walked past the group of mages began leaving a distance between them, for fear of the redhead exploding from excitement.
"Well, that's great!" Cana practically yelled, "You can eat cake while I drink away the night!"
Shaking her head, Erza looked at Lucy. "So, it's my turn: why are you four here?"
"I see." Erza said before taking a bite of cake. She was staring outside of the diner's window. The diner, Sunny Flour, was small, with most of the space being taken up by the bar and kitchen. Lucy had cringed a little at the name, unable to decide whether the name of the diner was terrible pun or just an epic fail.
Erza turned back to facing the girls – except for Cana, who was sitting next to Erza in the booth. "I'll be joining you all now – no questions."
Nobody did question (unsurprisingly). Juvia and Levy were worried that Cana would have questioned, but it seems she was still too sober to make that dumb of a decision.
The was an awkward silence between the group, while an elderly couple had left the diner. It was nearing night, and the girls had yet to begin working on finding the dark mages.
"The plan, Levy." Erza demanded, breaking the silence.
"P-Plan?" Levy replied, seeming shocked.
"Yes, plan. You are the tactician, are you not?"
"Well, yeah." The blue haired girl said. "I was just a little shocked by this sudden of a question. Anyway," She continued, "Before you arrived, I was thinking about splitting into two groups and just surveying the forest. But now that you're here – unless we decide to chop one of us in half – we can't split into two groups of two."
"I understand completely." Erza nodded, before lifting her hand. Within seconds' time, a giant axe appeared her palm. "Seeing as you suggested the idea, I'll be chopping you up."
Levy shrieked and accidently spilt her water on the table.
Soon, Erza began laughing uncontrollably, the axe disappearing. "The… The look on your face!" She wheezed, "It was absolutely priceless!"
Levy blushed a deep crimson, and looked down.
After some time, Erza calmed herself and began speaking. "I'll be using your plan – Lucy and Levy, you are a group. Cana, Juvia – as are you. I'll be my own group. It's becoming late, so I suggest you get ready to go."
Lucy and Levy had been wandering the forest outside of Kaec in silence since they had left Erza, Juvia, and Cana. They figured with silence, they would draw less attention and have a higher chance of finding the dark mages instead of vice-versa.
After about forty minutes – though the silence had made it seem like hours to Lucy – she turned to speak to Levy.
"Hey, Lev-" Lucy stopped mid sentence. In place of Levy was empty air, and in place of calmness was fear and panic.
Lucy had never been one to be afraid of the dark – as long as she wasn't alone. Here, that was not the case.
"Levy!" Lucy shouted repeatedly. "I guess I lost her…" Lucy mumbled to herself. "Stay calm, Lucy." She told herself. "I can just summon one of my sp-" Lucy was interrupted.
"Ah!" She screamed in pain. Laughter was followed by her screams. Lucy turned, only to see a tree had been bent and was now partly covering where her back was with its trunk.
Through logical thinking, she decided that somebody had used magic to move the tree's trunk to hit her.
"Where are you?" The celestial mage shouted.
She heard the sound of leaves rustling and looked up at the tree branches. In the branches, about twenty feet about where she stood, was a woman.
She had long brown hair, which was put into a messy and long ponytail. She wore glasses, and a large coat that went down to her knees and widened around her waste. She wore matching dark brown gloves and boots. At her waste was a belt, and on it, a sword's sheath.
"Oh, boo." The lady said. "You found me. Time to fix that!" She raised her hand up, and then to the left. Concurrently, another tree's trunk moved and hit Lucy's side.
She shrieked in pain once again, and fell on her back. Instinctively, she reached for her keys, grabbing the first one she grasped.
"Open: gate of the lion, Leo!"
She stared into the air, and was shocked when nothing happened. She looked back down at her hand, and realized that she was holding a twig. "Huh?" She said, thoroughly confused.
The woman jumped down from the trees, landing on her feet, with her knees bent. "You still haven't caught on? I thought that it was a stereotype, but maybe blondes really are stupid."
"HEY!" Yelled the blonde.
The brown haired female yawned, "This'll be too boring if you don't figure out soon. So I might as well tell you."
Lucy looked into the woman's eyes, "How about you tell me who you are first."
"Well, normally I only tell my friends, but seeing as you're not going to live much longer than twenty minutes, I guess I can make an exception."
She took a step towards the Fairy Tail mage. "Diana. Diana Wrayburn. And if you haven't figured out what's going on, I've been using confusion magic. Of course, it won't work now that you're aware, but maybe now I can have fun fighting you. I've already been rid of that short pest that was with you.
Concern was what Lucy felt when Diana had said that. Not for herself, but for Levy. "What have you done with her?" She demanded.
"The short one? Nothing yet. I just used confusion magic on you two, causing you guys to split up. She was behind you, so you thought she was following you, while I confused her and made her think you went a different way. Is that so hard?"
"Wait," Lucy said, "But confusion magic shouldn't let you move trees."
"Maybe all blondes are stupid." Diana sighed. "I use more than just confusion magic – namely Natural Reformation, which is what I'm using to harm you."
"Natural Reformation?"
"There's no time for explaining, only for fighting. I'll go easy at first, but once I get bored," She looked Lucy straight in the eyes.
"Once I'm bored, it's over. So make the most of it."
So, yeah, Lucy might die. On a brighter note, it's starting to get interesting. I'll try to update more, and summer's coming, so freedom will increase slightly!
Also, please, please, please review. Even if it's just to say high, reviews are what make me write. Literally, this story had no reviews and I didn't feel like writing 'cause I didn't know if anyone wanted me to, and then I got one review - from a guest, nonetheless - and I gained the urge to write this chapter. So, again, please review.
Thanks.
~AGuyOnAComputer AKA Peter