Chapter 4

Flashes of scenery was passing by as a group of 5 people was sat on the train, 2 white and 3 blonde, but one of the blondes looked rather illish, so his head was laying on the lap of a blonde wolf slayer, " it's rather funny to know you have motion sickness just like the other Dragon Slayers." going slightly green the large muscular lightning dragon slayer gave the girl a stern look. "Shut it … blondie… or I'll…fry your …Arse."

Shaking her head she petted the mans head, "Now now, who's the vulnerable one at the moment, Sparky?" he gave her a death glare as she simply ignored it.

It had been a week since the whole event had happened at the guild and now the new team, Silver Stars was heading towards a new mission, The Silver Stars was made of 4 members really, but since Laxus had to baby sit Lucy he was forced to come along by the master. It was made up of Lucy, Kane, Mira and Elfman. Mira had said that Lucy should be the team leader since she was the strongest of them, and most intelligent. The others just agreed well apart from Kane who said he might be slightly stronger than Lucy but that all went down hill when Lucy quickly beat his arse in a small Brawl inside the guild.

Natsu hadn't been seen anywhere within the week which was rather strange, Lisanna was at the guild almost every day though, she had taken over her sisters bar work while Mira was out of town on missions.

"So Silver, what's the mission we have to do today?" Lucy took out the brown piece of parchment and looked over the job discription, " We have to guard a rare jewel that will be transported from Hargeon over to Crocus, which will take about 3 days. If my calculations are correct it could just take us a day if me and Kane transformed and ran in our wolf forms but… that would be a risk and well.."

"The Hunters will be tailing after us, Right got it, we have to take the long 3 day route huh?" Mira asked earning a nod from both siblings, "Yeah unfortunately. We can't have the Hunters knowing that me and Kane are Wolf Slayers, to be honest I didn't even know there was wolf hunters still out there until Kane mentioned it back at the apartment a week ago. So we have to be extra cautious." Lucy spoke as she slowly ran her fingers threw Laxus soft blonde hair, calming his motion sickness down.

Mira watched them closely and her match making skills was going haywire, thinking ' blonde haired blue eye'd babies!' while Lucy was thinking the same thing for Mira and Kane, Silver hair, blue eye'd babies!' she'd love to have Mira as a sister in law, she was perfect for her brother in every way, although Elfman might have problems letting his sister go.

- - - 1 hour later in Hargeon - - - -

The group of 5 fairy tail mages was stood outside a high priced jewellery store as Lucy was talking to the owner, " Thank you for accepting this job Miss. Heartfillia, there are many bandits out there that would like to get their hands on this jewel, which is why I am paying a high price for you to guard it threw it's journey to Crocus." Lucy gave a nod with a gentle smile, "you can count on us Sir, my team will not let anything happen to that jewel and once it is safely there, I will contact you threw the Lacrima." she held up the small crystal ball in her hand.

He gave a nod, "My shop in Crocus will give you the reward money when you have delivered it, now when will you be departing?" "After Lunch Sir, we all left without breakfast this morning, we will return in an hour." With that after speaking to the shop owner they headed towards a small café on the harbour.

"Your business skills with speaking to people really impress me Lucy!" Mira spoke as she sipped her Tea she had ordered while they was waiting for their meals. "Thanks, but it's nothing, just some stupid lessons my Father had given me. Although it does come in handy when dealing with people like that owner."

"But how did you know we was all hungry?" Asked Elfman, and Lucy just pointed to her ears giving them a slight twitch, which made Mira giggle "Cute!" " I could hear the majority of your stomach's growling, plus I was in the mood for meat anyway." "Tch, when are you not in the mood for Meat Blondie, it's all you ever eat! Just last night you ate a raw steak…RAW!"

That made the Stauss siblings pale a little bit, "Well sorry but I am a Wolf you know!" "Well I take my Steak well done thank you, not Raw." and again they began going at it fighting, which caused their team to give a sigh, and Mira whispered to Kane.

"Are they always like this?" Kane just nodded sipping his Coke, "it's much worse at home, She caught Laxus reading one of them stories she writes, and she totally flipped out, only in a To- OW!" he threw his ring off his index finger and gave Lucy a stern look, "That's my favourite Ring Silver!" they noticed the Ring was steaming a little bit which means Lucy had made the heat on the ring rise.

"You know why you got that punishment, your rings fine don't worry." he picked it back up after it had cooled down placing it back on his finger. Their food came, and just as quickly as it came the 3 slayers had ate theirs just as fast while the Strauss siblings just looked in shock.

The only one that ate with at least grace was Lucy. Although she still stuffed herself silly, it was surprising that she never gained any weight at all.

- - - Back at Magnolia Fairy tail guild - - -

Lisanna was behind the bar, while Bixlow sat chatting to her, Along with Gray and Erza. "So Mira's back out in the field again taking missions with Lucy huh? Must be exciting." spoke our favourite Titania, "Although I was surprised when they picked cheerleader to be their leader" Erza gave a shrug taking a bite out of her strawberry cake that she plans to marry in the future, "Lucy has a lot of hidden potential Bixlow, but I'm surprised you was able to stop Freed from following Laxus along with them for this mission."

Bixlow just laughed sticking his tongue out which revealed his fairy tail mark. "That was easy, I just said that Laxus wants him to keep an eye on Natsu, Very important mission and he's now running round town trying to find the little pinky. How come you didn't go with them?"

At this Lisanna was very curious as to why Erza hadn't gone, she had been practically sewn to Lucy's hip since finding out about Natsu attacking her, "So long as Kane and Laxus are with her, plus Mira and Elfman I don't have anything to worry about. Plus… she sort of begged me not to go." she hung her head down in shame that she had given into Lucy's request. What made her nervous though was on how Laxus and Lucy was getting closer to one another over the past week.

Lisanna placed a finger to her chin, "Now that you think about it, I've noticed Lucy and Laxus being close to each other, I've never seen Laxus joke about and laugh the way he does with her. I think this will be a very intresting turn out. An I'm most certaintly sure that my sis is going to try matching them up anyway."

It was now Gray's turn, "And it doesn't bother you that Kane's getting close to your sister?" that made the white take over mage grin, "I think it's a perfect match up, I just hope Elfman thinks so too. Lucy would be a GREAT! Sister in law. I have no problems with her, I just.. Don't know what's going threw Natsu's head lately. All I said to him was that I'd love to go on a mission with Lucy, and he took it the wrong way, and kicked her out of his team. Personally that's wrong."

They all nodded there heads in agreement, " So what about you Lisanna, still have feelings for Natsu?" "Oh hell no Gray, I grew out of that childhood crush, but I ain't telling you who I like now" the sounds of a chair breaking was heard behind them. They looked to see an angry Natsu.

"What's up with you Fireball?" " No matter how much trouble I go threw to try and ruin that girl… you all still favour her? And what do you mean childhood crush Lisanna?" "We was just kids Natsu, don't get me wrong, you are a good guy or at least I thought you was. Lucy is an amazing person, why bring her down?"

"She's a weakling!" "she's more powerful than you" Erza spoke, instantly regreating them words coming out of her mouth, "She's what? And how would you know that? All she does is hide behind spirits."

Gray suddenly stood in front of Erza, knowing something was seriously wrong with Natsu, which confused the woman, " All you've been doing lately is judging everyone by their strengths and power Natsu, and I have to Agree with Erza, from the information I've been told. Lucy is 10x stronger than you. So is Kane, so leave them alone" Natsu jumped forward with his fist on fire, " shut up you fucking dick!"

He went to strike gray but something hit him, rune markings appeared around the fire dragon slayer trapping him, "Not so fast there Natsu, jeez that was a close one, you are getting far too dangerous at the moment."

A voice spoke up from above them, looking up they saw Master Makarov sitting there looking down, "I agree with you, Freed keep him detained in a room that cancels out his magic until we can figure out what to do." Freed nodded and put magical restraints on Natsu with help from Bixlow and Erza.

Master Makarov looked down at his children, "are you all ok?" They gave a nod although Lisanna was shaken up, she had never seen her childhood friend act that way, it was rather frightening to her eye's.

"Yes… "

- - - back in Hargeon 1 hour later - - -

Team Silver Star had made their way back to the shop keeper, and all got into the carriage that was awaiting them, although they was having a hard time getting Laxus on it, "No way in hell… I'm walking next to it, I aint getting on that thing and travelling for 3 days on it." "Laxus get your bolt arse up here now" was all Lucy spoke, rubbing her temples, this had been going on for 15 minutes.

"It's better if I guard it from the outside just in case people will attack." "That's why Lucy's Driving, she has experience driving these things," Kane answered he too was getting annoyed at the complaining. "No" "LAXUS GET IN THE CARRIAGE NOW OR I WILL SMASH YOUR SOUNDPOD!" A VERY frightening Mira shouted, which made the Wolf Slayer siblings cover their ears.

"sorry guy's," Laxus turned to walk in front of the carriage until he felt something wrap around him, looking down it was circles of silver, and looking back up it was Lucy using her silver bending powers, he was then holsted up into the air sitting down next to her "What the heck Blondie!" That only made an angry Tick appear on her forehead, pulling her fist back she hit him hard in the jaw, causing him to pass out, "alright we are ready to go!" Spoke a now happy Lucy.

"You know when he wakes up he's going to be very mad at you sis," Lucy just shrugged at her brothers comment, "and we should be at least out of Hargeon by then, so if he attacks me, no innocent by standers will get hurt!"

"Great thinking! Being intelligent is a Man!" Elfman spoke up finally, after he had watched a very amusing show between everyone, closing the door, Mira was in charge of holding the jewel for half the journey and then Lucy when it was time to switch turns on driving. Giving a quick snap on the rains, the carriage began moving and they gave a quick wave to the shop keeper heading off. They was stocked up on food for the 2 day journey, sleeping bags, and what ever else they would need.

"So Lucy, you know which way we are going right?" Asked Kane, which received a sigh, "I've been to Crocus before Kane, I remember what it smells like, plus there ARE! Signs pointing me the right way. Also if I do happen to get lost, I have my celestial spirits with me to help us get back on track, so I always have a back up plan unlike you lazy bugger."

" Well excuse me for asking! No need to get grumpy, are you on your Time of the month?" the Strauss siblings couldn't help but laugh at that, but if you saw Lucy's face it was blushing rather red, "NO I'M NOT!, shut it Kane otherwise I'll ask Mira to shut our mouth for you… oh Why did I have to bed Erza to stay behind?"

"Why Erza?" Asked Mira, the eldest take over mage, "Because as she's been staying with us, I've noticed that Kane's rather scared of her, mind you I would be if I was attacked and watched 2 of my best friends die by her hands…" with that her voice began trailing off a little bit. That had shocked the Strauss siblings the afternoon was slowly turning to evening.

" She helped the hunters?" Kane gave a slight nod, "Yeah, she didn't know at the time that me and Lucy was wolf slayers, or siblings, an the information she had received about the job was incorrect so instead of her making sure she had the right information she just followed along with the instructions and job discription" Mira moved to Kane's side and gave him a gentle hug, "that's so horrible, I do hope you can forgive Erza one day."

"Already have, it's not like she knew or intended it, I can see why Lucy thinks of her as a sister, I already consider her as family, oh and also did you know that Erza has a crush on Gray?" Mira began squeeling in delight as Lucy was fuming, "that was secret girl talk Kane! Not for anyone to know! Damn you don't know how to keep your mouth shut! How about I tell Erza that I caught you eating her strawberry cake and blamed it on Laxus?" Kane suddenly whimpered cutely into Mira's arms, which earned a growl of Elfman, " please don't, I'd like to make sure I live long enough to have pups sis"

Lucy rolled her eye's as the carriage mad a left turn, now they was travelling threw the Hargeon woods, " you carry on and I'll make sure you wont live long enough to have pups." Elfman kept his arms crossed, "why are you using the term pups for kids?" "Were Wolves remember." they both spoke in unsion. Receiving an oooo from the man.

After 5 hours of travelling Lucy parked up the Carriage in a safe spot near a cave, that held a lovely waterfall that glistened in the moon light, everyone began setting up Camp just as Laxus was waking up.

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Dun dun dun! Laxus is waking up! What's he going to do to lucy since she knocked him out?

The mission part 1 is now up, and the mission part 2 will follow shortly!

Curedream90 over and out~