And onto day 4!
There was no valid word that I could think of to help describe what the being now known as Kaleb Pradesh standing in front of me.
"I'm sorry for scaring you earlier Lucy. I shouldn't have done that so openly without taking your background into consideration." I stared over at Kaleb and sighed.
"It's alright. You didn't know." I sat up from where I was laying and scowled over at Bickslow who was still laughing. "Oh hush Bixy. Before I call Virgo out." He stopped immediately after that and then I looked back over at Kaleb who was now chuckling softly.
I raised an eyebrow at him and he told me why right afterwards. "I just got a clear visual as to why Bickslow doesn't want you to call Virgo out. He certainly was not vague with the details." Nodding, I made my way back over to my food and sat down in the chair to finish eating. "But to answer your earlier question, I didn't finish your job for you. You've done an excellent job translating what you do have done though."
I blushed slightly and smiled "Thank you Kaleb. Do you have any tips for me for the rest of the translating? Or do you want me to try translating the rest on my own and you can tell me if I did something wrong. Bixy told us that both you and your other brother, Farron, have studied up on the language."
"I'd like to see how much you can get done before I make any inputs." Kaleb walked back around the table and sat down in the chair across from me with Bixy sitting next to him.
I ate the rest of my food in silence as I continued to stare at my notes. When I finish the rest of my food I push the container towards Bickslow and get straight back to work. It was about an hour and a half later when someone finally spoke up in the room. "A jewel for your thoughts Miss Lucy?"
I looked over at Freed and smiled. "Of course Freed, what do you need?"
"It's kind of starting to sound like the Temple may be in another country. Do you have any translations yet to where it could be located?" Freed was holding a book but standing in front of the map he had pinned to the wall. "If I had to guess, its either in Seven or somewhere in Bosco. Judging by one of the pictures here in the book though, it resembles the architecture of Bosco."
"Not any accurate translations yet. However I can confirm your suspicions of it being in another country since the names I'm figuring out here aren't any I recognize being in Fiore. Maybe our two Boscans in the room can confirm if it's Bosco?" I shoot a questioning look towards Bickslow and Kaleb.
The latter just shurgged and looked over towards Freed. "Ridge Town sounds familiar. It's one of the towns on the boarder of Bosco and Seven. So your translations would be almost fairly accurate on that Freed."
"Should we start our search there tomorrow then?" Freed looked over at the rest of us.
"I think that's a good idea. However, I reaaaaaallly want to finish these translations before we head out so I can understand what all could be written." I spoke up and shot a look back to Kaleb. "Even if we do have an expert on the language already."
Said man chuckled before looking back over to me. "Don't worry Lucy, I won't take the fun out of this for you. I'm simply here in case you need help at this point."
"Alright then, who want's to tell Laxy he's going to have to not only go on another train, but an airship as well now?" I giggled knowing that the lightning slayer would not be happy with that.
The four of us laughed before everyone pointed to me, which was surprising considering Kaleb didn't know me very well. "Both of them are thinking about how you are Kin to Laxus, and I know what that means having two siblings that are slayers. He'll be easier on you than he would the rest of us. The last time he managed to shock me, it took a couple of hours to get my hair to stay down instead of standing on end." I laughed at the taller platinum blonde who could only scowl.
"Ok, we'll stay here for another hour so that I can try to finish the rest of these translations. Freed, if you and Bickslow do want to head back you can. Just tell Laxus that I'm working on the rest of the translations and I'll be back in an hour and a half. I'll send a spirit to let you all know if I'm going to be later than that though."
"That's quite alright Miss Lucy. Laxus would probably zap us if he found out that we left you here alone with Master Kaleb." Freed got a sudden red tint to his face before shivering.
It was about two hours later when we were finally on our way to the hotel we were all going to stay at. I had brought the rest of my notes with me so I could continue to study them.
It was a short walk to the hotel as we followed Bickslow to the rooms we would be staying in. He opened one of the doors and we all walked in. The first thing I heard was the low growl and I looked over to see Laxus with his teeth bared. "Do I want to know what the hell the light stick is doing here?"
I sighed and stood in front of Kaleb to try and block him from Laxus' view. "He is here because we needed a confirmation on a language neither Freed nor myself had studied before we left for this mission." I held up a hand to hush him before he interrupted and I continued. "He is still here because not only do I want him to confirm my translations, since he's an expert, but he's also here because we all have to go to Bosco tomorrow."
The lightning slayer groaned and sat down on one of the beds. "Please tell me you are not serious Blondie. The train I could handle. But I can't take the airship..." He trailed off and sighed.
"If it makes you feel any better Laxus, they updated the systems used in the airships since your last visit. With two Dragon slayers in the family that do a lot of traveling with our father and oldest brother, they implanted a lacrima into the ships systems where you wont get any motion sickness." Kaleb stepped around me to speak to Laxus.
Laxus could only nod with his head in his hands. "Ok, so now that that's out of the way. I'm going to go take a shower and change for bed. We have an early day tomorrow." I grab my bag and head to the bathroom and turn the water on for the shower. I pull out my night clothes and set them down on the counter next to the sink and pull out my tooth brush and other items I would need.
When the water is hot enough I step in and sigh in content and begin washing my hair. 'It's so nice to be able to take a shower in peace. Nobody to just walk in whenever they want. And I still have all my clothes intact. No bothering me for stupid stuff.' I hum a little tune happily as I finish the rest of my peaceful shower and change into my clothes for the night afterwards.
I put the clothes I had worn earlier that day into the bag and grab it on my way out of the bathroom once I finish my nightly routine. When I walk out of the bathroom however, I was not prepared to see Bickslow and Evergreen being contained in separate rune barriers. That must have also been silenced since it looked like the two of them were yelling at each other, but I couldn't hear them. All I could do was stare at everyone in the room and think what the ever loving fuck could have happened here.
I look around and see Kaleb laughing at everything. "Do I even want to know what happened? I was gone for what, fifteen minutes? Twenty minutes tops?"
"Do you want the short version or the long version Miss Lucy?" Freed spoke up from one of the couches.
"I could just as easily show you what had happened like a movie in your head if you'd like Lucy." I looked over at Kaleb and nodded.
It really was like a mini movie was playing in my head as I saw everything that had happened. Bickslow had been picking on Evergreen again. And took it one step further by pulling out her bag and pulling out all of the fairy mages bras and underwear. I gasped as I watched in horror that Bickslow was wearing one on his head and prancing around the room like an idiot. The movie ended when Freed had put the two in their own rune barriers to where they could hear each other but we couldn't.
"Not very vague on all the details on that movie huh mister mindbender." I giggled and walked over to Bickslow's rune barrier with my arms crossed. "Oh Bixy~" I called out in my most innocent voice. Freed dropped his runes around both mages. To which the Fairy mage ran over to me and threw her arms around me and cried about having her personal space invaded by the pervert that is her teammate. Bickslow on the other hand went deathly pale and stared at me like a deer caught in headlights. "Bixy, Bixy Bixy. You know very well how much I hate it when my own team do that to me. Would you like the chance to explain why you did it? Or do you want me to just go ahead and call Virgo out now?"
I gave the seith mage a stern look before he swallowed and spoke up. "I-I..." He trailed off and looked around the room to the other guys standing. Laxus shook his head and told him that he was on his own. Freed gave him a sympathetic look before walking towards the bathroom. Kaleb was standing behind me so I couldn't see what he was doing. But with him being a mindbender mage who knew what he was communicating to his brother.
'I swear to every being above Kaleb Pradesh that if you so much as try to help your brother out of this situation, I will sick Virgo on you next.' I thought so I knew Kaleb would hear me.
"I-I'm sorry Cosplayer. And sorry Evergreen. It was just starting to get really boring in here. And I usually pick on Evergreen when I get bored because it's way easier to get a reaction out of her than it would be to get one from Freed. And nothing surprises Kaleb anymore. And I can't pick on the Bossman at all otherwise I have to fear getting zapped." Bickslow spoke while looking down at the ground. "You know I'll buy you a new set too Ever."
I look over at the still red, tear stained face of the fairy mage and sigh. I place a hand on her shoulder and smile sadly. "At least you have a teammate who's actually willing to replace what they could have damaged." I can tell that that hit a nerve as she wrapped her arms around me again and apologized to me as well. "It's alright. Now then, off of the serious topics, are we sharing a room with the guys or do we have our own room?"
"We have our own room. We just brought everything in here because we knew we would have a group meeting about everything before going to bed." Evergreen spoke up as we took a seat on one of the couches. "So other than a new language and traveling to Bosco tomorrow, is there anything else we need to know about?"
"Well we have an expert translator on this mission with us now" I look over at Kaleb who only nodded. "Freed and I managed to get that room we were in saved before we left the library. This way we can continue our research in case this is just a wild goose chase. Aaaaaand I found out exactly how open Boscan people are about sex." I giggle when I hear Laxus growl. "It's alright you over sized bug zapper. All he did was ask in a way to where it shocked me and I fainted. Nothing sexual actually happened."
"I know exactly what you mean Lu. I was like that the first time we traveled to Bosco. I was not prepared for all the open propositions." Ever blushed and I giggled.
"Well I guess both of you ladies are going to have to get used to the asks since Lucy is going to be like a rare fruit in a garden never seen before. Your pale skin and blonde hair are not common in Bosco and people will want to ask you to share pleasure whenever you can. Just ask Laxus." Kaleb said while standing next to the couch Ever and I had been occupying.
"Good to know. Thanks Kaleb!" I smiled brightly at him and then looked back towards Ever. "So shall we leave the men to themselves and we can go have girl talk in our room before bed?"
We giggled as we stood up from the couch and said our good nights as we were heading out of the room to our own, completely unaware of the three sets of eyes on us on our way out.
I sighed in content as I watched the blonde beauty leave the room with her hips swaying. 'Damn I love that beautiful brain of hers as much as her looks.' I thought before looking over to my brother and his teammates. "I'll take one of the couches if you'd like Laxus?" The other blonde simply grunted before laying back in his bed. I could feel his mind starting to shut down for the night.
I looked over at Bickslow who only shrugged and made his way to one of the two couches in the room. Freed came out of the bathroom and went straight to the other bed. 'Alright guess it's time for bed then.' Was all I thought as I pulled off my own leather pants and jerkin. I laid down on the other couch in the room and let my thoughts ease out as I was able to listen to everyone's minds as they drifted off to sleep, with the exception of the two women in the group who were apparently up late watching some scary movie. I chuckled softly as I listened in and slowly drifted to sleep for the night enjoying the presence of my companions.
