Day 5! And Things are starting to pick up now! :)

Sorry for the late update everyone. Life and my body decided to be stupid and now I'm sick and my brain isn't coming up with the best ideas. Enjoy this chapter though! You'll get "Infernal" later tonight since I have to go through and edit it.

Waking up the following morning after the terrible news Blondie brought was like waking up in Hell. 'Fucking train... Then the fucking airship. This is going to suck.' I thought to myself as I just laid in bed waiting for everyone else to wake up.

'You do realize I've been up since dawn, right?' I felt the smooth voice in my head and growled.

'Is it too much to ask for you to stay out of my head so early in the morning?' I really just wanted the peace and quiet before the team all met up at breakfast.

'Sorry Laxus. Didn't mean to intrude. You're the only one awake in this room. Lucy managed to surprise me by waking up around an hour after I woke up. She's quite the woman.'

'You leave my kin alone you over sized light stick. I would like to keep her as innocent as I can, for as long as I can.' I growled and stood up to make my way to the bathroom thinking about all the horrible things I would do if Kaleb so much as hurt my kin.

I quickly took my shower and changed into clothes for the day before leaving the confines of the bathroom. I do everything I can think of to try to keep Kaleb out of my head as the rest of my team slowly starts to wake up.

Bickslow is the next one in the bathroom which left Kaleb, Freed and I alone to talk about what the plan for the day is until my closest friend is out of the bathroom.

"Should we go and ambush the girls to wake up now Bossman?" The seith asks when we are all sitting down on the couches in the room.

I look over at Kaleb and silently ask him if both girls are awake now to which he nods his head softly. I smirk then look back over at Bix. "If you want, you can go and wake them up Bix. Just remember this though, Blondie hates being woken up by other people."

I watch as my closest friend shivers and sits back down. "Never mind, I actually want to make it to Bosco in one piece." We all get a chuckle out of this and as if on cue, there's a knock at the door and I yell over my shoulder that it's open.

Evergreen and Lucy walk into the room and look at all of us with a confused look as Kaleb is trying to hold in his chuckle and Freed is staring at me and Bickslow with slight mortification. Would not be surprised if he caught on to me trying to get Bicklow in trouble with the females of our group on purpose.

"I don't even want to know what you boys were talking about before we walked in." Ever huffed and walked over to one of the beds to sit on it with Lucy following right behind her.

"Judging by the look Freed is giving Laxus, I'm gonna guess that Laxus was trying to talk Bixy into doing something stupid." Lucy looked at me then everyone else next to me.

"Just trying to have a little bit of fun before you make me get on the metal death traps today Blondie. Can you blame me for wanting to see Bix get his ass kicked?" I scowl at my fellow blonde as she sighs and shakes her head.

"I guess I can't. But you know how Ever and I need our space first thing in the morning. Speaking of it being morning though, how about we all finish getting ready for our long journey and then meet up for breakfast? I need food and possibly a coffee." I hear her stomach growl at the word food and chuckle when her face turns a light shade of red.

I look at the other guys and they all nod in agreement. "Yeah, sounds like a plan Blondie. You and Ever wanna go ahead and go find a place for breakfast and we'll find you when we're all done here?" The girls look to each other and shrug before standing up.

"We'll see you guys in a little bit then. And Kaleb?" She looks over her shoulder at the platinum blonde mindbender mage who gives her a questioning look. "Hope you enjoyed listening to my rantings early this morning." She winked then walked out the door.

I scowled over at Kaleb who only shrugged. "I thought I was being careful enough to where she wouldn't be able to feel me in her mind. What a woman she is." He said while staring at the door where the girls had just walked out from.

"Cosplayer's all sorts of special bro. She's surprisingly strong too. You definitely don't want to make her angry either or else you'll have to fear the wrath of what her team likes to call 'Scary Lucy'." I shivered at that and so did Bix.

"It certainly is indubitable. She is not to be messed with when she is like that. I've heard the only way to get her to fully calm down after her rampage is to buy her a strawberry milkshake. Mira has told me that's the best way to calm her down." Freed spoke up from his spot on the couch before standing up. "I shall go and prepare myself for today now." He walked over to the bed he slept in and grabbed his bag before walking to the bathroom.

"Is she really that bad when she's angry?" Kaleb asked softly and I looked over at him with a blank look and shared images with him of Lucy kicking Natsu through a wall after he did something to piss her off. Another image of her almost breaking down the guilds doors to find someone who had apparently gone through her stuff at her apartment. Her just giving a scary look at Gray and Natsu to get them to stop arguing after she'd already had a bad day. Most of the images sent Kaleb's way, was mainly Blondie being pissed with her own team. It's rare to see scary Lucy targeting anyone outside of her team.

I watch Kaleb's face contort into a frown. "There is a lot of things I could say right now. But the only thing I can think about is why she is still on such a destructive team."

"Oh! I know the answer to this one!" Bickslow raises his hand like a child in the classroom who's really gotta take a piss. I nod telling him to go ahead and he brings his hand back down. "Natsu is apparently the one who found Lucy and brought her to Fairy Tail. So they went on a couple of missions together. Then one day Erza came back from a mission and asked for both Gray and Natsu's help on some other mission. Mira had asked Lucy to tag along to try to keep everyone out of trouble, and since then they have been doing missions together and I don't think I've ever seen them take solo missions."

"It goes deeper than that Bickslow." Freed stepped out of the bathroom. "Miss Lucy's magic is solely based around promises. With every celestial being she makes a contract with, not only does she become stronger, she is also promising to keep her spirits contract intact. If she fails to keep any promise she makes she could lose all of her celestial spirits."

My eyes widen upon hearing that. "How do you know all this Freed? Blondie's never mentioned anything like that to me!"

The rune mage smirked and settled himself back on his bed to place his cravat and his jacket on. "I was allowed entry into Miss Lucy's home once when she needed help with a translation job and Miss Levy wasn't there at the time. I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I was when I saw an entire bookshelf dedicated to her magic. She then promised me that after I finished helping her with that translation job that I could read and borrow whatever books I wanted so long as they came back in the same condition I borrowed them in. Her magic truly is fascinating." The rune mage got a faraway look on his face and I sighed.

I look over at Kaleb who is just staring at Freed as he continues to think about Blondie's magic. 'Any other major information I should probably know about when it comes to Blondies magic?' I silently ask him.

Kaleb shakes his head before sending a look my way. 'Not really. Just learning a few new things about celestial magic too through this. It's truly interesting. None of the celestial mages at the Sea have acquired what is called Star Dress form.' I smirk at that and stand up to pop my back.

"Alright, so if we're ready to go, lets get to the girls." I pop my neck and then jump when I see a small woman with pink hair standing in front of me. "Damnit Virgo! I know Blondie has talked to you about sneaking up on us!" I yell at the spirit while clutching my chest.

"I'm sorry Master Laxus. Punishment?" I stare at the maid incredulously and sigh when I hear Kaleb chuckle. I tell her a quick no and ask why she's there when Blondie is nowhere near us. "Princess requested that I come for your bags and to bring these for Master Kaleb." She holds out a pair of white leather pants and a white leather jerkin that look similar to the ones that Kaleb had been wearing yesterday. "Princess did not know what type of clothing you prefer to wear so she had me bring these back to the Celestial realm to clean them for you."

Bix, Freed and I hand her our bags as Kaleb takes the offered clothes and she poofs out of the room in a puff of golden smoke and glitter. "How did she sneak in here and grab these without me noticing?" Kaleb asks more to himself than anybody else in the room while staring at the clothing still in his hands.

"Yet another reason why you need to stay on her good graces bro. She's almost as sneaky as Van. And that's saying something." I shiver as I think about Bickslows youngest brother.

"Let's not talk about that little shit and Lucy in the same sentence. I feel like that's just trouble waiting to happen. Kaleb go change and then we'll head out to meet Blondie and Ever." I watch as Kaleb puts his clothes on right in front of us and I shake my head. 'Boscans.' I think to myself before walking out the door of our room and down the stairs to the main lobby.

We walk out of the building and I start sniffing the air for the familiar scent of vanilla and strawberries as well as lavender and pineapple. I find the scent and start walking towards what appears to be a little cafe.

I open the door and hear a little ding and I look up to see a small bell attached to the door. "Hi welcome to La Collation! How may I help you all today?" A young woman behind the main counter asked as I looked around the room trying to spot Blondie and Ever.

"We're here looking for a couple of our friends. Have you happened to have se-" Kaleb had started before he was interupted.

"Over here you guys!" Lucy is peeking around a corner with a smile on her face and waving a hand over.

"I guess that answers that question." Bickslow chuckled and we all walked over to see where Lucy and Ever had chosen a table large enough for all of us. "Well then ladies, anything good on the menu here?"

"They have a wide variety to choose from so there's a little bit of everything. Laxus?" I look over at Blondie and she smiles softly. "I'm not too sure how your stomach is going to react with food and then all the traveling. So why don't you do a light snack and then maybe a coffee to try to cheer you up?" I grunt and nod slowly as she smiles brightly at me. "Do you guys want me to go place the order?"

There's a few sures and nods then Lucy writes down what everyone wants before heading over to the counter. We all sit there and talk about what the next step is after this when Kaleb stands up. "Be right back." 'She sent a mental link asking for help to carry everything back.'

I nod in understanding as I sit there and wait for the two blondes to come back with the food. I listen to see if I can make out if they're talking or not but all I hear is their footsteps getting closer. 'Stupid mindbender being able to talk to my kin without me being able to listen in,' I growl lowly until the two walk around the corner with their arms full of plates and drinks.

'That was rude Laxus. She was the one who initiated it this way, not me. Now focus on your food so that we can all get to Bosco.' I scowl at the mindbender then pick up the blueberry muffin Blondie had ordered for me. 'Damn she knows me too well sometimes.' I think to myself as I take a bite of the delicious snack.

We all eat in relative silence with the few small comments here and there. When we all finish our food we take our plates back to the front and pay before leaving and heading towards the train station.

I groan when I see the train and immediately place my sound pods over my ears and prepare myself to get on the metal deathtrap.

It was Kaleb and I who went to pay for the tickets for the train to Clover Town. I smile softly as I think about the first time I had ever been to Clover and giggle as I remember the end of the mission leading to a mountain having holes through it and the guild masters annual meeting building being demolished. My team sure went crazy on that mission. But it was necessary in order to save the guild masters from lullaby.

After paying for the tickets we walk back over to our group and hand out the tickets. "Ok, so we'll take the train to Clover Town and from there go to one of their airship ports and catch a ride to-" I look up at Kaleb for a confirmation since I know we had talked about possibly stopping in Pelerno so he can grab some more clothes for himself.

"We're going to stop by Pelerno first so that I can grab more clothes and this way dad can say a quick hi to Bix and the rest of you." Kaleb finishes for me and I smile. 'Don't worry mi estrella. I've got your back when you need me.' I smile brightly up at the adonis that is Kaleb.

'I probably won't need your help, but thank you for being there just in case.' I giggle softly and completely miss the smirk on his face.

When they call for the train to Clover Town we let Laxus get on the train first to pick the area where we sit. It shouldn't be too surprising when he finds an empty compartment and immediately takes one of the window seats and leans his head against the window with his sound pods still on, making a small 'thump' noise.

I look at my older brother figure in sympathy and sit next to him while Kaleb takes the other side of me and the rest of the thunder legion sits in front of us. I brush my fingers over my keys until I find Virgos and I call her out and ask for her to bring me the research I did bring with me from the library.

I sit there and study the translations in silence while everyone else talks quietly amongst themselves. I giggle at the occasional joke that Bickslow makes or even when Ever says anything about Freed's sense of fashion that's been the same ever since he joined their team. It was fun listening to them interact together. There wasn't always fighting. There was joking and smiling. No rude comments about anybody's weight. It was peaceful for once. I look out the corner of my eye to watch Kaleb as he interacts with the thunder legion like he's always been a part of this team.

It's truly amazing. Or maybe he's just amazing? I see him turn his head towards me and I blush lightly then look back down at my book and put my mental wall back up so he can't hear what I'm thinking. I can feel him trying to prod his way into my mind and I look back over at him with a stern look and he chuckles. "Okay, okay. I'll stay out of your head for right now. Just surprised me when you suddenly put up the barriers."

I nodded in understanding before I went back to my studying. It was going to be a long seven hour train ride.

The minute we get off the train Laxus thumps against the side of a wall in the station. I giggle and walk over to my pseudo brother and place a hand on his arm. "Laxus, I know we just got of the train, but we have to head over to the air port now so we can actually catch the next flight. Just think, we'll be in Pelerno in less than four hours." I smile brightly up at him and that seems to make him feel a bit better about the whole thing.

"I'm telling you Laxus, you wont even feel motion sick at all. They updated the systems! Had it set to where it would work for all Dragon slayers. Not just Emi and Cris." Kaleb spoke up from in front of us.

"I'm just not looking forward to being confined in the air. I'd rather lightning teleport to Pelerno and meet you guys there." He sighed then started walking towards the air port with the rest of us.

"But if you did that, how would you know if the rest of us are safe or not? Hm?" I ask pointedly and his shoulders stiffen before he mumbles something under his breath to where I can't hear him. "I'm sorry, you'll have to speak up so I can actually hear you. Not all of us here have super hearing." Sarcasm can be a girls best friend sometimes, I giggle to myself.

"I said, I wouldn't be able to tell at all. Let's just get this stupid flight done and over with." Laxus grumbled while walking and I giggled.

I wrap an arm around his arm and smile up at him to try and cheer him up. "It's alright Laxus. I'm sure it won't be as bad as it usually would be for you."

"Tch. Whatever Blondie." The rest of the walk was in silence when we made it to the air port however, it was clear how excited everyone really was. Especially Bickslow.

"Yooo, this is going to be amazing!" The seith mage shouted in excitement after we paid for our tickets here. "Boss man do you want to go enjoy the baths before we take off?"

'A bath does sound really nice right now.' I think to myself and stiffen when I hear a chuckle from behind me.

I look behind me at Kaleb who is still chuckling. 'It's not the kind of bath you would be used to mi Estrella. They do have private baths that you can use though.'

'What other kinds of baths are there?' I ask sarcastically.

Kaleb looks over at me and the next thing I know I have images in my head of what looks like a giant swimming pool with steaming waters and a lot of people sitting in it. Oh wait- 'Kaleb?'

'Yes mi Estrella?' We're staring at each other as we walk onto the airship.

'Please tell me that all of those people are not naked.' I'm instantly uncomfortable. 'How can they all be so comfortable sharing a giant bath like that?'

'Simple Lucy, we're Boscan. Very open in all ways. Be prepared to be propositioned though, you've already caught the eyes of quite a few people on board.' We walk through a door that leads to a cabin with a bunch of bunks.

'Really? How do I go about telling them I'm not interested?' I ask as I release Laxus' arm and let him sit down on one of the bunks.

"Let's grab some of our stuff from Blondie and then we'll head down to the baths Bix." Laxus looks over at me and raises a brow in a silent question.

I pull out Virgos key and call her out to ask for our stuff. As soon as she returns with all of our bags she goes back to the spirit world in her puff of golden smoke and glitter. "There ya go Laxus. Go enjoy the baths."

'You just tell them no like you would any other person you aren't interested in. They'll walk up to you and if you're promised. This is our way of asking whether or not you have a significant other. You'll respond no and then they will simply ask if you'd like to share pleasure. They should leave you alone after you tell them no. If they continue to pursue you after you've told them no, just call out to me through the mental link. I'll step in so we don't cause any problems on the ship.' I wanted to tell him that it wouldn't be necessary for me to call him, but it was a smart idea.

I smile over at the mindbender mage and watch as the rest of our group walks out of the cabin to head to the baths. 'Im just gonna stay here and then probably go up to the main deck when we get into Bosco. You're free to do whatever you want now too Kaleb.'

'Mi Estrella, your mind has captivated me. So I'm going to stay here and listen to you as you study. If you don't mind that is.' I giggle and tell him it's alright with me.

I pull out a book I had brought with me and begin to read it when I feel the ship start to take off. This is such a weird feeling. Hopefully this trip wont feel as long as the train ride.