Special chapter for the last day of school! R&R (Still looking for a beta) (:
Chapter 2- Sabertooth
When Laxus and Lucy arrived at the guild they each went their separate ways. Laxus to his usual table and Lucy to where Gray was sitting with a blue haired girl and the rest of team Natsu. The white haired woman who worked at the bar seemed to be watching their conversation closely so Lucy decided to change course and go her direction instead. Once she got to the bar she climbed onto a stool and waved at the woman. She promptly came over and started to speak. "Why hello young lady! I'm Mirajane, but you can call me Mira. You must be Lucy. Nice to meet you! Would you like a strawberry smoothie? It's my specialty!" Lucy was taken aback by Mira's knowledge of her name but let it slide as Team Natsu didn't seem the type to keep new things on the down low.
"I would love a strawberry smoothie Mira." Lucy said leaning on the counter.
"Coming right up."
"Can you bring another barrel out too, Mira?" Another voice hiccuped from across the bar.
"Yep!"
The owner of the voice was the brown haired woman from the day before with the bikini top. The only difference was that today she wasn't cheering on a fight. She noticed Lucy across the bar and scooted closer. "Hey there shorty! Name's Cana. You gotta be," she hiccups, "Lucy."
Lucy giggled, nodded confirming that it was indeed her name and put her hand out. "Nice to meet you."
"Same here!"
After they had introduced themselves, Mira brought out their drinks and Cana was suddenly too busy guzzling down her drink to speak anymore. Lucy was worried for her physical health but knew that she couldn't do anything about it.
Lucy began to look around the guild at all the people while feeling the presence of Mira behind her.
"The taller man with the white hair over there is Elfman. He's my brother and he's the one who was fighting Natsu yesterday when you came in." Lucy nodded and continued to listen to her. "The one with blue hair surrounded by books is Levy, the one sitting next to her looking bored is Gajeel, and the two behind them are Droy and Jet. Now the interesting thing with those four is that Jet, Droy, and Gajeel are completely in love with Levy but she only likes Gajeel, so although sometimes they fight over her, Gajeel is always the winner. It's so romantic!" Lucy was amazed by the story and by how many books were piled around the small Mage. She decided to meet her before she left but continued to listen to Mira. "The blue haired woman next to Gray is Juvia. She is in love with Gray and I think that secretly Gray loves her back, but the thing is Lyon, Gray's brother-ish figure from Lamia Scale, is head-over-heels for Juvia. It's complicated but they are so my OT3! That's like three people you think would be good for each other, by the way."
Lucy almost couldn't believe that Lyon was Gray's brother but was excited at the new information given to her and couldn't wait to ask Gray about it (and tease him about Juvia. She could see his blush now.).
"Lastly, the young girl over there with dark blue hair pulled back in pigtails is Wendy. She's a dragon slayer like Gajeel, Laxus, and Natsu. There are other people in the guild such as Gildarts, Macao and Wakaba but I think I've named off all the people you should really meet before you've left."
"Thanks Mira!" Lucy decides to start with Wendy and Juvia so she heads over to the table with Team Natsu.
"Hi guys!"
"Hey Luce!" "Yo Lucy!" Natsu and Gray said at the same time.
"Hello Lucy, my names Wendy. It's really nice to talk to someone younger than me. No offense!"
"None taken." Lucy says with a smile.
"LOVE RIVAL!"
"She is ten years old, Juvia!" Gray said face palming.
"Promise to never leave Juvia." Juvia says clinging to Gray's arm.
"Get off!" He said with a slight blush on his cheeks as he tried to pry from her vice grip.
Lucy giggled. "It's alright. I'll leave you two lovebirds to your snuggling. I have other people to meet."
Before she left the table she caught Gray red faced as he continued his struggle. She then went to the table covered in books and got through Jet and Droy to see what Levy was reading. It looked like a book in a different language and she began to grow more curious so she tapped the brunette's shoulder gaining both her and Gajeel's attention. "Um, I'm sorry to interrupt but I was wondering what language that was in."
"It's in the language of Crouton. The book itself though is The History of Dark Magic by Refez Grandele"
"Oh my gosh! I've read that! Have you gotten to the part about reincarnation magic yet?"
"Yes, and…"
Levy and Lucy began to fangirl and gossip over the books they've both read and recommend others that either person hasn't. Levy gave Lucy two books in different languages so that Lucy could learn them and sent her on her way. By this time it was getting late so Lucy headed back over to the Thunder Legion to say her goodbyes.
"Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving to catch my train to Crocus now."
Once this had reached everyone's ears, Lucy immediately found herself pressed against Evergreen's plentiful breast. She blushed as she hugged her back for a moment before squirming out of the arms around her and waving to the others promising to visit soon. No tears were shed but it was still an emotional farewell. Once outside the guild Loke appeared pointing to the watch on his arm. Lucy nodded in understanding and began to run to the station. Once there she got on the train and settled into an empty room lying down on the seat with her eyes closed. She must have fallen asleep because next thing she knew the whistle blew at one of the stops on the way to Crocus. She slowly got up rubbing her eyes and resting her head against the window. They were still stopped when she heard a knock at the door. She looked towards the door to see two boys her age. One with black hair and one with blonde. She waved them in and without an introduction they slumped onto the seat across from her with green faces. She smiled in understanding and went back to looking out the window while wondering what had happened to make the boys across from her so tired and motion sick. Could they have been training? Maybe they were on a job for their guild? Were they dragon slayers like Natsu? She shrugged it off and decided to ask them once they sat up. A few minutes later, Virgo's key began to glow and so she allowed the spirit out much to the surprise of the other occupants of the room. "Lucy-hime, I believe these two boys have a connection to Yukino. Have I earned punishment?"
"For the last time, I will not punish you. But thank you for the info." Lucy said closing the gate and leaning back with her arms crossed looking at the two boys who seemed to be on guard. They both had magic swarming around them and glares were present on their faces.
"Do you plan to harm a member of our guild?"
Lucy laughed awkwardly and pulled her legs to her chest while shaking her head. "N-No I don't want to harm her. I just really want to train with her because she has the same magic as me." She sparkle in her eye as she said it convinced the two it was the truth and so they calmed down. "She also has the other Zodiac keys so I wanted to see what Pisces and Libra could do. Plus she has a key that's a total mystery to me! I'm so excited to meet her! I just can't wait!" The boys laughed at her fangirl moment and couldn't help but wonder who the person in front of them was.
"I'm Sting and this is Rogue, we're from Sabertooth." The blonde one said with a smirk. "Who might such an interesting girl as you be?" He winked causing Lucy to blush and Leo's key to burn in her pouch. She touched the pouch causing Leo to simmer down.
"I'm Lucy." She said extending her hand to shake. What she didn't expect was for Sting to take her hand and kiss the top of it while Rogue scoffed in the background.
"It's a pleasure." Leo was trying his best to get out of his key, but Lucy was fighting back hard for him to stay in.
Once Lucy had gotten her hand back she decided that it wouldn't hurt to ask if Sting and Rogue could set up a meeting between Yukino and her. "Would you mind asking Yukino if she would see me so we can discuss training with each other?"
The two looked at each other as if they could communicate telepathically and then nodded in understanding turning back to face the blonde across from them. "We'll do it, but you have to promise not to hurt her."
"I promise."
"Thank you, Lucy. We'll do our best."
The rest of the ride was filled with mainly small talk between Sting and Lucy with the occasional comment from Rogue, but before they began speaking Lucy gave the two something for their motion sickness which they were very thankful for. Lucy couldn't help but be intrigued by Rogue's mysterious behavior and tried to bring him into the conversation more than once only to be met with monosyllabic answers. This was alright with her but she couldn't help but wonder what he was like with close friends. She decided to grow to be friends with him. She wanted to be someone he can relax around and trust to stay with him for the long run.
Once they had arrived at Crocus Station, Lucy was asked by the two to follow them into the woods and wait in a clearing that reminded her of what had been her home for the last five years.
"Stay here. We'll go get her." Sting said before running off with Rogue to get Yukino. Lucy waited 30 minutes before getting bored and deciding to expand on her power while waiting. She sat down on the ground with her legs crossed and began to imagine and concentrate on her power expanding until an orb of power was constructed around her. The orb continued to get larger the more she concentrated on her power stretching and pulling on itself to elongate and cause more land to be covered in the light power being emitted by this 10 year old girl. By the time it was dark out the entire clearing was bathed in light and the shimmery essence could be viewed a mile out all around. At that point she began to sweat and knew it was time to pull it back in so she slowly pulled on the reins so to say and allowed the power back into her. This sudden increase in power made her giddy inside and so she stood up and ran around the clearing doing handstands and back handsprings whenever she saw fit. When she was upside down in a handstand she saw three figure approach the clearing. Knowing who it was already she back handsprung over to them and popped up a foot away from their faces. She began to embrace the white haired girl with an excited smile on her face.
"Well, hello soul sister!" She exclaimed letting go and twirling around in happiness. They all stared back at her in shock at her mood.
"What are you on, Blondie?"
She giggled and jumped to a branch of one of the trees above hanging upside down. "Haven't you noticed that you're blonde too?" She giggled. "Guess not, Ba~ka!" Sting started to pout and looked at Rogue who was trying hard to hide his smirk. "I just stopped my training for the day and man did my power orb grow up big tonight! Anyways, since it's a bit late tonight for more training, I was wondering if you, meaning Yukino, wanted to train here with me. We could set up a time to meet or, since I'll be setting up camp here, you can just drop by anytime and I'll be ready to train."
Yukino stared wide eyed at the force of nature before her. She knew what she was talking about as far as training since she had seen the orb of light and sensed the power coming from it. She could tell by just that that this girl, Lucy, in front of her was immensely stronger than her and was shocked that someone like her would want to train with her. She was compelled to say yes, but she also didn't want to become a hinder to Lucy's performance as she knew she was to everyone else by being their number one bad luck charm. She was about to say that she couldn't, but, before she did, she looked into Lucy's big brown eyes pleading for her to train with her and was compelled to say yes. Lucy looked so happy in that moment that Yukino knew she had made the right choice.
