*squeals* I can't believe how many people decided to review, favorite, and follow my story! Just so you know, yes, I do love leaving cliff hangers. But that's just to keep people reading and keep your interest sparked. So don't hate me!

Anyway here you go! Time to find out Lucy's answer! But if you read the plot you would already know. -.-

Chapter 3: A New Team

"Well…" Lucy started, "Okay!"

"Yay!" Wendy and Zen hugged her.

"But Lucy," Natsu whined snapping out of his frozen state, "we're partners. You can't just switch!" Makarov sighed.

"Now Natsu-" Gray interrupted him.

"Don't complain! Lucy would still be on our team if you didn't always destroy everything!"

Erza hit him. "Don't interrupt Master!" Then she turned to Natsu, ignoring the fact that Gray flew a few feet away. "He's right though. Even if we can't do anything about Gray's stripping," she paused, "We could still be a team if it wasn't for your constant destruction! DAMN YOU! This is all your fault!" Now she was holding Natsu by the front of his vest while yelling in his face. Said boy was terrified. She threw him back down.

"O-oi!" Gray interjected, "E-Erza, c-calm down."

"Now, now, it's Lucy's decision," Makarov said. "You should respect that."

"I must apologize, Master," Erza bowed her head.

"I still don't like it," Natsu grumbled.

"It's Lucy's decision," Gray interjected, "we don't have to like it."

"But you will respect it," Erza added with a glare, "got that?"

"So…what's our first mission going to be?" Wendy stated trying to change the subject. Lucy, who had been watching the conversation with interest, turned towards her.

"I don't know," she said. "Zen," -he looked at her- "since it's your first mission, why don't you pick?" She gestured toward the mission board. He nodded and pulled her along with him as he made his way towards the board. He grabbed one and came back showing it to Lucy.

"What about this one?" Zen asked. Lucy looked over the job before nodding and handing it to Wendy.

"I think this is fine. What about you Wendy?" Lucy asked.

Wendy looked at the job before nodding her consent and handing it back to Zen. Zen then handed the job to Makarov. "We'll do this one!" he said happily.

Makarov looked at the job, expecting it to be a simple one considering the ease with which the other two accepted it, and his eyes immediately bugged out.

"A-are you sure about this?" he asked. Zen, Wendy, and Lucy nodded.

"It doesn't sound that hard," Zen stated.

"We can handle it, Master. Don't worry!" Lucy added.

"Zen could probably do it alone actually," Wendy said. "I don't know why he needs us."

*Lucy sweatdrops* "That's true isn't it…"

"What's the mission?"

"Nothing big," Zen answered. "We just have to defeat an extremely strong demon that resides in a cave deep within the black mist forest." Wendy nodded.

"I heard he eats you if you get caught within the black mist," she added.

"Yeah I heard that to," Lucy continued, "but it really only happens to normal people because they're generally not strong enough to fight the demon off."

"The reward is 900,000 jewels," Zen finished. The guild stared at them in shock. "So we'd like this mission." Lucy noticed everyone's unease.

"Don't worry guys!" she tried to reassure them. "Zen's actually a whole lot stronger than both me, and Wendy combined. The only reason I had to save him is because he was in shock from his family's murder." The entire guild looked shocked.

"Say," Erza started, "what's your magic?"

What is Zen's magic? Tell me what you think! If you come up with something really good I might change it to that! Tell me!

I would like to apologize for not updating sooner but unfortunately I couldn't think of a good mission so I'd like to thank I love Mugiwara no Luffy for giving me a mission for this story! Also I'm sorry it's so short but once I got the mission I wanted to post as soon as possible before you guys go crazy trying to figure out what Lucy would say. By the way I don't know if I told you but I LOVE LUFFY! That's why he's my ID picture!