Chapter 3
Two days had gone by, not once had Lucy been bothered by the pink haired salamander sitting at the other side of the guild along with Gray, doing their usual routine, Laxus was with his thunder tribe as Freed was all over him like a little fan girl club member. Ever green was just fanning her face while Bixlow was making constant jokes at Laxus. She felt slightly sorry for him, especially that her home has now become a mini hotel for both him and her brother, Luckly she had a guest bedroom set up, which was currently Kane's bedroom and Laxus just shrugged taking the sofa.
Lucy had offered him the bed, but once he took one look at the pink sheet's he walked over to the sofa, with his arms crossed saying that the sofa was his bed and his alone, no sharing no love seat just his. Although he wasn't happy about baby sitting the blonde wolf slayer, he was grateful for the cooked meals she made. Every morning she was up before both men, she'd go out for a jog, shower, make breakfast all before Laxus and Kane was awake.
It was the masters Idea to have Laxus guard her, as to prove that it was a next step test before stepping down and allowing his only grandson to take over the guild and become master himself. Lucy just muffled an annoying comment and stomped out saying ' My home isn't my sanctuary anymore! It's gonna smell like men and sweat 24/7!' Although it didn't she was pretty surprised that both men was very hygienic.
So now here she was, sipping a strawberry milkshake, with her brother sitting next to her she was wearing some black combat skater jeans, a blue tank top, with a vest hoodie over that, a fingerless glove on her left hand, and her hair tied up in a pony tail.
"So Lucy, how is it sharing a place with two men?" spoke a voice coming from behind the bar, she looked to Mira, her brother was trying to flirt with Cana but for some reason he had been drawn into a drinking match with her. "it's not actually all that bad, only the constant window and fire place checks to make sure that you know who hasn't wandered into my house while no one is there. It's annoying, but at least I don't have to worry about either of them walking in while im in the bath. They both respect my privacy as I do them." Mira gave a slight grin. " ok what's that smile for?" Mira just shrugged with a face saying 'I'm not telling you'
"Say Mira, that mission we did the other day was pretty fun, how'd you say about going on another one again?" Mira placed the towel down that she had used to dry glasses that was already sparkling clean. "Hmm, you know what I think I'd like that, and Elfman seemed to have enjoyed himself too. I don't think he would mind it either,"
As if speaking his name Elfman walked up to the bar his arms crossed inside of each Kimono sleeve, "It's manly to do missions with my nee-chan and friends!" Lucy couldn't help but crack a smile on her face, only to wince a little after, her split lip hadn't healed much in the past few days and was still slightly bruised, turns out when Natsu bust her lip, she needed at least 3 stitches to hold it together. "hey careful now, so how is your lip healing?" Lucy rubbed her thumb against it a little bit trying not to cause any more damage. "it's alright, only hurts when I smile slightly too much or I end up whacking it by accident. Don't worry too much about it, Master gave Natsu quite a harsh punishment, banned from missions for a month and under constant supervision with the thunder squad. While Laxus has to babysit me along with this idiot!" she pointed her thumb towards her slightly drunken brother.
Who turned and wrapped his arm around her shoulder, "Awe come on Silver, you know you love me!" Raising her eye brow slightly she couldn't make out whether he was being stupid or just doing it to annoy her. " How many times do I have to tell YOU! Just to call me Lucy, none of that silly nickname ok?"
Mira leaned against the bar elbow propped up watching the siblings, " so why DO! You call her silver?" Lucy sighed, when Mira and Kane talk, its like an unstoppable force, " Well, being a wolf slayer does have a lot of advantages dove, we can control almost all of the elements, we have telepathy and telekinesis. Great agility and hearing is ten times stronger than a dragon slayer, which is one reason why our race is next to none. An not a lot of people know about us. But, we each have one certain power that makes us what we are, and my sister here, is a great silver bender, she can take it, and form it into any shape, form, make it hot or cold, liquid or solid. Which is where she got the name silver from."
Mira nodded understanding while Elfman stood a little confused, "an then what's yours?" Kane sat back thinking, "To be honest, I'm not sure," Lucy gave a small snort of a laugh, and took his dangling arm off her shoulder. "Kane is good at freezing or blowing things up. Sort of like Time arc magic but without the re-wind button." they blinked until Lucy grabbed a chicken leg off Kane's plate and let it drop, Kane's face dropped as he reached a hand out and it froze in mid air.
"See? Freezing and Kane loves his food so he'll use that all day long." she added and they nodded. Kane took his chicken leg and took a bite giving his sister an evil look, "not cool, Silver not cool at all! You'd have to make poor Dove here make me more food!"
"Um… why do you call me Dove Kane?" Mira asked as the blonde was taking a sip out of her shake, " my father was british, making me half british, we use dove a lot for the females." Mira nodded as someone came up to the bar so she had to get back to serving customers. "You like her" Lucy spoke from her drink. Causing Kane to choke on his food, so she gave him a large thump to the back.
"What the hell Silver!" she just looked innocent sipping the last of her shake, "I'm just stating the truth, that little flush of red across your nose doesn't deny it. Plus! I know the only time you call someone Dove, is when you have a thing for them. Just be careful around Elfman he's protective of his sisters. Even though I know when wolf slayer's find mates they become more protective than that." Kane nodded as he pushed his empty plate to the side.
Just as he was about to speak the guild doors opened up, standing there was a scarlet haired woman in armour.
She scanned around the guild, and noticed that a few people was keeping eye's on Natsu, while the others was either speaking to each other or a little close around Lucy. Mira was behind the bar but not wearing her usual clothing and even her white hair was up in a high pony tail like when she was younger. Her eye brows crunched together a little bit a few people gulped, but she noticed that Lucy was sitting with her back to the door, but the older sandy blonde haired boy was looking at her in confusion.
"Welcome back Erza! How was the job?" Mira asked cheerfully, one person that wasn't afraid of her. "It went well, thank you Mira, now I've heard some very un pleasant rumours going around town lately, has anything happened over the past few days while I was gone?" members of the guild looked to each other, but daren't speak up. She looked over to Natsu who looked like he wanted to run away from the guild, sweat pouring off him like crazy.
"Natsu? Care to explain?" she spoke walking up to him, "I didn't do anything!" Was all that rolled off his tongue, until a loud snort was heard from the bar, coming from the guy next to Lucy. Erza raised an eye brow and then walked over to him, her armour clinking against the floor. "I see we have a new member, although your face does look slightly familiar, I do ask what's so funny."
He looked to her, slightly afraid but stood his ground, "Simple fact that the punk over there is lying straight to your face" crossing her arms over her plated chest, "Explain" "He wanted a fight with sis here, but she didn't give him the time of day and lets just say I don't think his punishment was hard enough on him, ugh.. Sis?" Lucy had stiffened up when the heat was put on her, she knew how Erza could be especially when one of her friends was hurt.
"Lucy? Is what this man saying true?" giving a sigh, "Yeah, thanks you idiot" she gave her brother a punch to the chest, almost making him fall off the stool. She finally got the guts to turn around and her friends eye's went straight to her busted bruised lip. "What happened." cracking slightly under the pressure, she was about to speak when Mira spoke up and explained everything to the scarlet haired Ex-quip mage. By the end of it Lucy was supping a new milkshake looking like she was in trouble, but that soon changed when Erza turned to Natsu.
"NATSU YOU IDIOT!" the boy tried to run but a sword came and pinned him up against the wall, everyone in the guild knew that Erza felt like Lucy was a sister to her, they was closer than close. Lucy had been the one to fully worm her way into the womans heart and not get angry at. She knew how much the blonde loved and cared for everyone in the guild and this one pink haired twit hurt her.
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By the end of the day, everything seemed back to normal, Erza tried to get Laxus out of body guard duty with the master but had refused, so she settled for stopping with them too. Which only meant that more trouble might be starting in her home than it would be. She was lucky enough that she could fit an extra person in the apartment she rented.
Erza had also spoken to gray about everything, and he said he'd stay with Natsu on body guard duty to make sure the flame brain didn't attack Lucy again. Not unless she wanted a fight.
Now, Erza, Laxus and Kane was all sat at the kitchen table as they watched the blonde stellar mage whip up quite a feast. Erza had equipped into a normal skirt and chiffon blouse so the blonde man didn't look as scared, although Laxus just wasn't bothered, he just sat there with his sound pod on, sipping his coffee. Although he did steal a few glances at the stellar mage. No one had told Erza that she was currently staying at the new founders wolf slayers house.
"So Erza? What was the mission you went on?" asked Lucy not turning around, Erza just gave a smile, her bangs slightly over her artificial eye. "I don't think you'd believe me even if I told you, I know I didn't believe it up until I was caught in the middle of battle." everyone suddenly turned to her, "what do you mean?" asked Kane, he then slightly took a sniff and his eye's widened, she looked clean but there was a faint scent of blood on her, blood he didn't want to smell. " alright, apparently, the mayor of clover district had come in contact with some violent mages, and wanted them either caught or killed. The group was very persistent, and wouldn't be caught.. But what surprised me was, that this group of 3 mages had an ancient lost magic."
They nodded for her to continue "Wolf slayer magic, they had apparently killed 3 town girls, and 2 more kidnapped. They didn't seem violent but a job request was a request." a clank was heard, as Lucy dropped the spoon she was holding, as Kane's face paled. "You killed them didn't you?" "I killed 2, the last one had gotten away, so I only got paid for half the job, I did manage to get out a small feature of blonde hair, not sure what shade though, but I do know he'd fled from clover town 2 days ago. He was last seen getting on a train with 3 people he'd met"
Lucy spun round and looked at her brother her face pale but her eye's was hard, speaking with him threw telepathy 'what did you do!'
Kane let out a groan in his head 'nothing! That mayor was a big freaking liar! Who was the ones that died?'
Then Kane let out a slight whimper, ' Jose and Kelly….'
Lucy's eye's widened, and held onto the kitchen side, Laxus noticed this and stood up, he then gripped onto her shoulder and forced her to sit down, "I'll finish blondie, I think you three should have a long talk!" Erza looked confused as she looked between Lucy and Kane, he looked familiar to her, way too familiar. " Erza, was it a girl and a boy you killed? One orange haired, the other brunette? Around 5ft 6 and 5 ft 8?" Lucy asked and the woman nodded, "That's correct, but how-"
She stopped speaking as Lucy placed her head down, she almost didn't see the tears that silent fell from her little sisters eye's, "Lucy?" "Kane, explain..now!"
Kane looked to both girls " we found a group of girls partying in the forest, and they had gotten lost, one of them was injured so we took care of the wounds. They had offered us a free meal we accepted, but since we had our guard down we didn't know someone from the city was watching so after everyone slept, Jose stood guard 5 girls alone in the forest? No magical powers? Drunk? We didn't want to leave them. When it got to around 1am we was attacked.. Kelly had accidentally transformed and we was discovered… they must have told the towns people that we had kidnapped a group of girls cause next thing we know, we'd gotten them saftely to town and we was being hunted, we got violent because it's our nature to protect our own sis, you know that."
Erza's eye's widened, this man knew everything about that mission she was on and suddenly it dawned on her, "You're the one that escaped! Lucy! He's a!" she had re-quipped into a new armour but Lucy stood up stopping Erza, "I know what he is, but Erza, Kane's my older brother. If you was to kill him you'd have to kill me too."
Erza looked confused until it dawned on her, "Your…" Lucy nodded as she sat back down and took a sip out of Laxus coffee, " Laxus you need to cut out the sugar in your coffee… it's too sweet." Laxus turned around "Oi! That's my coffee! Get your own blondie!"
"Stop calling me blondie! Your blonde too Sparky arse!"
"Sparky arse? You little shit!"
" Least I don't smell like it!"
" least I don't use all the hot water up!"
" because you don't know how to bathe! A longer bath means more relaxing! Your always too tense sparky!"
"Stop calling me sparky blondie!" They was now both right up in each others faces, it was the first time Erza had ever seen Laxus argue and try not to keep a straight face, but she was hungry and slightly coughed, "Are you both fighting?" "HE/SHE STARTED IT!" they pointed to each other, by this point, Kane had to finish of cooking. While Erza made Lucy shrink back whimpering like a little puppy instead of an adult wolf. Which was quite weird for them, " Enough! I don't care who started it! I'm ending it! Any more fighting and you will regret it!" they both nodded and sat down. Dinner was soon served and they ate in peace. Although Laxus and Lucy was trying to steal off each others plates, Erza was trying to keep the peace while Kane was just laughing, he had come to some conclusion.
"Hey silver! I think you found your mate finally." Lucy's eye's widened and choked on a fork full of meat, before screaming "HE'S NOT MY MATE!"
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Well theres the third chapter! Hope you all like it! How's erza going to deal with Lucy's brother? Does Laxus and lucy like each other?
That's all for now folks,
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