I woke up with a strange feeling enveloping my body. It, like all the other strange things that had happened to me, seemed familiar. I realized that the voice truly did help me. I smiled at the thought as I got up and put on another white dress that laced up the back. Along with matching lace-up boots that went just beneath my knees. I ran out of my room, I was excited for my mission and couldn't wait to depart. When I got out into the guild I realized that I woke up way too early. I looked at the lacarima-powered clock hanging off the wall and saw it was just after 6 am, and people usually start coming around 8. I sighed and flew up into the rafters. I felt the unknown power surge through me as if to remind me it was there. I decided I could experiment. I flew down to grab some things then quickly flew back up and placed many random items on the different beams to use as practice. From weights to mugs to tables that were actually quite heavy. I then settled in a position on a far beam to have a good view of the targets.
I brought my hand up in a pistol position, as if I was shooting someone with my pointer finger. I then let magic energy solidify into light and shot it at the smaller targets. I knocked them to the ground with a large amount of force. I then made a palm and made an orb of solid light(Not possible but meh)
Life Orb
I shot it at a table and it made a clean hole through it and the table fell to the ground with a crash. I repeated the process until most of the targets were on the ground. I smiled to myself.
Life wave
I unleashed a wave of light, it was quite hard to control but I managed to not destroy anything below. I also knocked the rest of the targets down but I fell down with it. "Don't use that spell until I'm ready," I told myself as I fell. I expected the hard ground but instead came into contact with something warm. I looked around and saw Mira's smiling face as me. I smiled as her and she set me down. "Lucy, you're learning new spells?" She asked as she moved to her place behind the counter. "It's not learning as much as recieving. I was 'restored' these powers from a dream, if that makes sense. I heard a voice, telling me they were an old friend, and they said they'll unlock my powers. When I woke up. . . I had this new power, but it feels quite familiar," I finished as I sat down at the bar and fiddled with some lights. I looked at Mira and she had a thoughtful look on her face, then her face relaxed into a look of failure. She smiled once again as she spoke. "Well at least you're regaining your past. It seems that your light magic is powerful, I'll look into it with Master later on while you're gone. You might even get to participate in the S-class exams this year!" She said as she cheerfully clapped her hands. I sweatdropped. "I honestly don't think I'm that good, Mira!" I said as I waved my hands in front of my face. She just gave me an even brighter smile that kind of frightened me. I felt a small hand on my shoulder.
"Lucy-san? I came here early so we can all leave before the rest of the guild comes and bothers us. Shall we get Laxus-san?" She asked. I nodded and, as if on cue, Laxus came into the guild. "Laxus? We were thinking we'd head out before the people swarm," I said as I hopped off my seat. He nodded and I went with Wendy to get my things. When we emerged we saw the Raijinshuu clinging to a very flustered Laxus.
"Laxus-samaaaaaaa! Why can't we go with you!" Freed asked while comically crying. I giggled to myself and heard Wendy do the same. Bixlow's babies were crying as well. "We gotta' test Lucy's capabilities! I'll be back soon enough! Okay?" He said as he pried his team off of him and smiled at them, he really did care for them. I could tell. He walked over to us and we all walked out of the guild together as we waved to the small amount of guild members that had gathered, it was still rather early.
We got to Clover in the early afternoon. We quickly got off the train. I was carrying Wendy since she fell asleep. I hummed to myself the strange tune from before, but I knew not to bother with it this time. I didn't want to suffer again. I sighed at the thought. I then felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at Laxus. He had his usual indifferent look, but I could see the slightest hint of worry in his eyes. I made a questioning look. "What's wrong, Lucy?" He asked, trying to sound uninterested. "Nothing. . . It's nothing, " I said, trying to convince myself more than him. I saw that we were approaching a rather large building. Laxus took the lead and walked in front of me. I quickly followed his fast-paced steps as we went in and got our room. We went to a room on the third floor and opened it. Inside there was a standardized kitchen and living area of sorts. There was also five doors sprouting off of the main room. A balcony, a bathroom, and three bedrooms. I quickly ran to one and placed Wendy on one and pulled the covers over her to let her sleep, she was rather adorable at the moment and I smiled before exiting and quietly shutting the door.
When I returned to Laxus he explained the situation. We'd ask around for the guild's whereabouts tomorrow, then compile our findings. Then we'd head into the forest and observe the guild's activities from the outside for a couple days and compile that. Then we'd finally infiltrate and grab evidence of whatever the heck they were doing. Then we'd figure out a battle strategy and destroy the guild. Mission solved. Simple.
Part one was a complete success. We went around the town in cloaks and gathered information from the townspeople. They were telling of strange creatures in the forest and reoccurring nightmares throughout the town. They also said that anyone who went into the forest also disappeared. We easily put the findings into a report and sent it in.
Part one went well. We found out the ranking system within the guild. There are two extremely powerful mages in the guild. And then the guild master. The rest of the mages are of varying strengths. I'd say from about Freed's amount of strength to Max's Broom's amount of power. We also did indeed find many magic creatures in the forest. All completely horrifying and extremely vulnerable to my light magic. So that went well as well.
As for the third part. . . That didn't go so well.
We were sneaking around the back rooms. I was in a light form and Laxus in lightning form. I also taught Wendy wind form earlier so she was in that, but she isn't quite the best at it. We were quietly blowing to a back room when her transformation failed. She looked like a deer caught in headlights. I had never seen anyone so scared. All eyes were on her and I quickly undid my transformation and ran in front of her. "WENDY! GO WITH LAXUS!" I yelled. Readying my magic. "B-But Lucy-Sa_!"
"GO!" I yelled. I ffelt a spark of energy and knew Laxus took her with him.
'Good luck you two' I thought to myself. I stared down around a hundred mages. Goddammit. I won't give up. I will take down as many as I can. It'll be fine.
That's what I was trying to tell myself. Yet I knew it wouldn't work well. I still had to fight though. I took that last bit of resolve and let out a battle cry as I ran into a flurry of magic power.
"FOR FAIRY TAIL!"