Hey people, I may not update once in a while, but bear with me all Right? Oh and… I GOT INTO RALIEGH CHARTER… whoot!!! I'm sooo happy, yet sad, none of my friends got in. Boo hoo
Without further ado, here is the story:
Disclaimer: …don't you wish…" So old man, tell us the story already." Natsu leaned over the Master's desk and stared into his face. As usual, the youth had no patience and was ready to go. (He would have left already without hearing the mission briefing, but Erza held his scarf captive…)
It was getting boring lately, he thought, everything was ordinary. Ordinary jobs, ordinary criminals, and ordinary…well, out of the ordinary partner. Lucy was no normal girl and she knew it. Natsu's side still ached from where Lucy kicked him out of the window. It wasn't as if he was doing anything wrong, he just thought Lucy would appreciate the beauty of sleeping in flames.
Besides that, the calm and placid air of the guild (well as calm as it could get) irked Natsu. His bones itched for action, like it usually did when a huge battle loomed ominously in the horizon. It was a dragon-slayer thing, something called an instinct?
"Ahh Natsu, impatient as always. Listen, Lalu Marigold, you remember her Erza right? Anyways, she reported to me about a strange occurrence in the towns she visited. Not only has she failed to spy on the dark guilds, which has never happened to her before, but stores of Lachryma and Element stones have been stolen right under her nose."
"Element stones? Master?" Lucy inquired.
"Element stones are special stones that are bewitched to carry the extra reserves of a mage's power. Each magic has a special stone to which it can only be compatible with. For example, Lucy, I know that Stellar Spirit Magic can be reserved in Lapis Lazuli stones, and Natsu's magic can be reserved in Fire Opals…" Master drifted off. It was highly disturbing that those powerful magical tools were stolen, but the descriptions gave by Lalu made it seem like it disappeared.
Erza watched the concern in Master's eyes. It was highly unlikely, yes, that Lalu would ever fail to receive information no matter how clumsy she was. It was that cursed blind eye that made her so unbalanced.. Ever since Lalu was born, she had a foggy blue left eye. She could see fine out of her right, which was a normal brown, but her left eye was completely blind. It was that blindness that made Erza respect her. Erza could only remember her own incident with an useless eye. It was only Polythusica's (or something…) expert healing that allowed her a second chance with a fake eye.
Lalu was quite short actually. From the beginning, Erza towered over her. Most of the time, all she would see was the older girl's curly dark brown hair. Oh, and that orange and red baseball cap that the girl never took off…
…and Erza was annoyed. It was most likely that Lalu forgot to add a detail in her report. The Master was worried about her!!! That woman…Erza seethed….was so forgetful and childish. Lalu tried really hard, and Erza knew, but how could one forget a nakama's name? And when she failed to remember a name, she would always invent a nickname. That's where that Titania nonsense came up.
"Master" Erza said. "The mission is???"
"OH! Oh right, thank you Erza." The Master smoked his pipe and attempted to slap Erza's butt. "Right, well. We need you to find out what's going on in the dark guilds alright? Try to return the Lachryma and the Element Stones… and try to prevent this from ever happening again… And Try not to get killed" he winked…
… "Because Mirajane and I have a bet about who will marry who, and who your kid resembles…"
"WHAT!!!" Lucy screamed.
WHAT!!!! They did WHAT??? Lucy groaned internally. She felt that the world had turned its back on her and left her to the mercy of these people's twisted logic. Why in the world would they make bets on who they'd marry? How much did they bet anyway?
"…I've arranged for you and Lalu to meet at Enzaria station." Master's voice snapped Lucy out of her internal rant.
Jake swished his blonde spiky hair back into shape out of his pail blue eyes. Interesting…he thought…So close to my old town…Jake grew up in Epoch, the closest town to Enzaria… It was fairly quaint and tranquil, despite the fact that it sheltered a dark guild.
A dark guild which Jake was part of a long, long time ago. Jake found himself absently tracing his scar, which ran from his wrist to his forearm. They may, no probably do have something to do with all of this..
That dark guild was responsible for his scar. He would slash a scar in the same place where his was on the man that was responsible for his pain. The man that named him Jake after his father died; the man that put the lachryma crystals into his body.
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