This is the time after the Edolas Arc and Lisanna RETURNED! Team Natsu wants to replace Lucy with Lisanna Strauss on the team, and that allows Lucy to think about her life. However, what most people don't know is that Lucy loves Natsu. What will she now do now and what is in store for her future love life?
Story By: RockCityGirl14
Chapter 10: The Train Ride and The Encounter
Italics mean Thoughts or Flashback
Bold means Letters to Mom, Shouga, or Team Natsu
(Back on the train with Lucy and Laxus: Lucy's P.O.V)
"AMAZING! I NEVER KNEW THAT A TRAIN RIDE WAS SO AMAZING! I SHOULD DO THIS MORE OFTEN LUCY! THIS IS COOOOOL!" Laxus screamed while running up and down the train like a deranged five year old.
People were now starting to stare at the both of us, while whispering to one another about how immature he was acting until I finally said, "LAXUS, sit down NOW!" He quickly obeyed my order and took a seat across me with a glare to finish it off.
"Much better, now can you stay calm until we reach Blue Pegasus?" I asked the blonde male. He had then made a pouting face toward me in which I giggled slightly. However, with his dragon slayer senses he was able to hear me loud and clear.
"What's so funny, Luce?" Laxus then asked with a scowl.
"What Nat-" I said before I caught myself mentioning his name. I was actually tearing up now; I remembered that Natsu was the only one who called me Luce. Now the waterworks are happening, especially in front of the other passengers and Laxus.
"H-Hey? What's the matter Blondie?" Laxus had then said as he moved from his spot across to me to beside me. He lent me a shoulder to cry on while trying his best to comfort me.
"It's nothing, just an old memory coming back to my mind." I said reassuringly to him.
"OK…but remember, if you want to talk, I have time for you whenever you need it Lucy."
"Thank you very much Laxus." I said while trying to hold in the sobs. About five minutes later we heard an announcement from the speaker saying that there is four hours until we reach Blue Pegasus and I stopped crying.
"So, watcha wanna do for the next four hours?" Laxus questioned me.
"Well, it's already 11:30, so why don't we grab some lunch in the front of the train?" I asked cheerfully.
As soon as those words came out of my mouth, Laxus ran past me yelling, "Last one there is an ugly Vulcan!"
I felt a vein pop out of my head and yelled, "No fair, you got a head start!" While also running and catching up with him.
As soon as we were in the second to front cart of the train, I went full out sprinting and was ABLE TO DEFEAT HIM!
"Haha..looks…like your…the ugly…Vulcan." I said in between breaths.
"Well I made that your win, Blondie!" He countered back at my comment while standing by my side.
"Yeah, suuurrree you did." I sang to him.
"YEAH I DID!" Laxus then said, slightly agitated.
"Whatever, I'm starv-" I tried to say until Laxus went in front of my face and then said, "Hey, what's up with you? Is something the wrong?"
I looked to my left and right then my front and back. Laxus had then looked at me with a dumbstruck look and said, "OK, I give! What's the matter?"
"It's weird, I have this tingling yet weird sensation that someone or something annoying is watching us." I answered back while still looking around the train.
As if on cue, a black shadowy figure came out from one of the top bunkers that was on top the train and came straight at me. The weird figure then said, "What a LOVELY parfum you have miss, I MUST HAVE MORE!" 3
I quickly clenched one of my hands into a fist and hit an uppercut against the shadowy figure, which hit its mark and yelled, "PERVERT!" I managed to hit the thing across the train with Laxus with a shocked face of the power that I had.
I then realized who I hit right in the jaw. It was none other than Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki of Blue Pegasus. He was also their guild ace, which surprises me on some many levels.
"MEEENNNN…what is the idea of hitting me of out of the blue, miss…LUCY! Ichiya said flabbergasted.
"Well, what is the big idea of trying to stalk and smell people OUT OF THE BLUE?!" I countered back at Ichiya with an icy stare. He then sweats dropped at the sight of my glare and looked to his left.
I also looked to where he was staring and heard, "ICHIYA-SAMA, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" It was Hibiki and the other Trimens coming to his side.
Ren and Eve had helped Ichiya to his feet before Ichiya said, "Oh it is nothing, just got a warm welcome from Lucy-dono a while ago."
In my head I was like, 'Did he just call me Lucy-dono?' (If you don't know. Dono- is a very high and respectable honorific)
My trance was suddenly broken when a heard a thud on the ground. I looked over and saw Ichiya whimpering like a puppy on the ground while all the Trimens had surrounded me, googly eyed.
"Lucy, it's been quite a while. Have you been training your Urano Metria from last time on that alliance and have you had a boyfriend?" Hibiki asked with admiring eyes.
'Wow, these guys sure know how to strike up a conversation.' I thought as they were still staring at me.
"Actually yes, I perfected Urano Metria and was able to use it as the perfect time, it was also thanks to you who first introduced it to me. And no, I did not have a boyfriend yet?" I said back at him.
Ren stared at me with suspicious eyes until he said, "Wait Lucy-san, I have three questions for you."
'His eyes are REEAALLY glued on me now' I thought until I said, "Sure, ask away!" I answered while smiling.
"OK, what did you mean by perfect time when using your Urano Metria and where is your guild mark? If I recall correctly, the Fairy Tail insignia was on your right hand." Ren questioned.
'Great, he noticed my guild stamp was missing. DAMN IT, HOW DO I FORGET TO COVER IT UP! This guy is also good at noticing small hints from my conversations as well.' I thought while Eve and Hibiki were now trying to check out my hand with confused expressions.
I looked over at Laxus who was taking a seat right next to us and nodded my head to answer their questions.
"Fine, but I'm only saying this once so you had better listen well." All the Trimens were listening while Ichiya was still on the floor, WAITING for his men to pick him up. However, he wanted to hear about my story so I started.
"First I was ignored in my guild since the return of a presumed dead girl came back from the other world known as Edolas. She then later took away many things from me such as trust, bond, and happiness for the guild when they later kicked me off of Team Natsu. Then, I have to figure out that Salamander was dating her. When I got my stamp removed, all of my ex team mates tried to fight me so I could stay, however ended up using Urano Metria on all of them and thus taking my leave. Finally, as I traveled out of Magnolia to Hargeon, I met up with Laxus and we have been traveling since then. He said that he will accompany me to Blue Pegasus during the train ride." I said while looking at the Trimens.
"So this means that Lucy-nee will be joining Blue Pegasus?" Eve had asked sweetly yet excited.
"Yep, but will I be accepted into the guild?" I asked the three boys worriedly.
"OF COURSE!" All the Trimens said while hugging me to death."
I giggled at their behavior, it was so CUTE! I can understand why almost all the girls in Fiore love them.
"I have one more question Lucy-san." Ren said in a more serious voice.
'Oh this has got to be great.' I thought sarcastically but in reality, "Sure, what is it?" I said while smiling sweetly at the air mage.
"Will you be my girlfriend?" Ren said while looking away at me with a sort of blushed face.
"Umm…can you give me a while to answer that question Ren" I said while sweat dropping and having my left eyebrow twitch.
"Sure, take all the time that you need." He then added at the end of my statement.
"But Ren, aren't you dating Sherry-tan?" Eve had then asked Ren.
"Oh yeah, but Eve, you must always remember that… IM A TSUNDERE!" Ren had said to the small snow mage while doing a pose. It was at that time that Hbiki had then picked up Ichiya from the ground.
Laxus made his way to us and said, "Hey Blondie, I'm starving over here, can we eat yet?" I then heard his stomach grumble and burst out laughing.
I wiped off some tears from the corner of my eye and say, "Sure, I'm also starving. Would you guys like to join us?" I asked the Blue Pegasus boys.
"Yeah, we would be delighted to have lunch with you Lucy-chan!" All four of the boys said at the same time.
"Great, so lets head up to the front and grab some food!" I said excitedly and walking right next to Laxus. While the Trimens walked together closely behind us, and Hibiki had to piggy back Ichiya who now was become unconsciousness.
'You would expect more dignity and pride from a guild ace.' I thought to myself at the sight of Ichiya on Hibiki.
'What makes it worse was that I didn't even go full power on him, did I really improve in strength this much?' I thought from my earlier thoughts.
I smiled towards myself at the thought of becoming stronger in a short amount of time already.
Laxus was now staring at me and said, "Are you alright, you look sorta drunk..."
I scowled at him; however I know that it's hard to stay mad at him for long so I turned that frown to a smile.
"I'm alright! I'm just excited for Blue Pegasus!" I confessed to Laxus.
"I can imagine, now you'll have a new family that will care for you." He had told me while still walking.
"Thank you for everything so far Laxus." I said to him.
I can tell that he was taken aback at my thank you but said, "No problem, that's what nakama do for each other, right Blondie?"
"Yeah!" With that we were heading to the front of the train along with the Blue Pegasus boys not too far behind.
As we were walking toward the front to the train I heard some passengers saying, "OMG! It's the Trimens, they're so hot and cute!" or "Isn't that Laxus who got excommunicated from Fairy Tail?" and even, "Who is the girl with the hot guys? Is she dating with one of them? MAYBE I should ask that tall blonde one out." And finally, "ARE YOU HIGH? You gotta be high if you don't find that Hibiki guy cute!" All the girls were talking while giggling like fangirls.
Due to the comments, I felt a vein up in my temple start twitching erratically; SERIOUSLY this kind of talk could be irritating. As I walked faster and ahead of Laxus, I heard the guy passengers talking to one another about how hot and cute I am.
I am SOO fed up with thise comments that I was able to ditch Laxus and the others until I felt a big hand grab me by the wrist and pulled me into his chest.
"Say, you don't have to leave me Blondie! Why don't we have a little fun." A masculine voice said while trying to hold me tight into his chest. My first instinct was that it was a pervert so I tried kicking and punching the man but it wasn't working, what made it worse was that he muffled my voice so I couldn't call for help. "Come on, bet you want to get with all of this!" He had said and pushed me into the wall. I continued to flail and shut my eyes but my efforts were just making it worse. I finally gave up until I heard a large thud.
The man that held me then fell to the train floor with a loud thump. I opened my eyes slowly to see a very pissed off dragon slayer at my side, looking down at the pervert. It was Laxus.
The Blue Pegasus boys then came up to where Laxus and I were. Laxus then calmed down and came by my side with a worried face. "Are you ok Lucy? You look like you were in a bind, why are you crying?" He had asked me.
I widened my eyes and felt my cheek where a tear was cascading down. 'Just like the day when I wanted to leave Fairy Tail.' I thought to myself.
"Thank you…Laxus." I managed to say while wiping the tear off. I saw Hibiki try and walk by me but I saw Ren hold him back by placing a hand on his shoulder and shaking his head no. I noticed a sad expression on Hibiki's face when he saw Rens actions.
Laxus stood up and held out a hand to me, in which I grabbed and he lifted me up. He then said loud and clear to the other guy passengers to the plane, "This is MY woman, I don't want ANY of you guys near her. Or you'll end up like that guy right there. And don't you dare call her Blondie, THAT'S MY THING!" Laxus growled while pointing at the pervert on the ground.
I blushed a bright red, I never had a guy possessive about me before. He then leaned towards me and whispered into my ear, "I saw that you were irritated by the girls' comments earlier and wanted to get away. Just so you know, I was irritated by them to, so I thought that I could help you out. It's almost like killing 2 birds with 1 stone." He explained.
"OK, but seriously thanks and also….DONT YOU EVER LEAVE ME ALONE LIKE THAT AGAIN LAXUS DREYAR!" I scolded at him.
"Yeah yeah yeah…I promise." He said as though he wasn't listening.
"Pinkie promise." I said like a young child while holding out my right pinkie.
"Sure, why not." He said while extending his pinkie to mine.
"Now it's official!" I said to him happily
Hibiki then came up to us, while Ichiya was now on Rens' back and Eve was standing quietly, and said, "Okay, you guys ready to eat?"
"Sure! We did say we're starving." Laxus said to the Archive mage.
"Great, then I'll take Lucy-chan there first!" Hibiki said while grabbing my hand.
We walked all the way to the front of the train and the first thing I say is, "HOLY CRABCAKES!"
When I looked at the front of the train where they had all the food I noticed that they had various appetizers, meals, and drinks to choose from.
In the end, I chose a Cesar salad with an iced tea along with a chocolate cake. Laxus chose the steak with some whiskey and as a side, an ELECTIC LAMP. (-_-) For all of you who don't know, Laxus is a thunder dragon slayer which also means that he can eat his element just like Natsu, Wendy,and Gajeel.
When we had all gotten our food, we took a seat in a booth near one of the windows. There were 2 sides in a booth. It was Hibiki, me, and Laxus on one of the sides while Ren, Eve, and Ichiya were on the other.
I looked at what the Blue Pegasus boys got for lunch and saw that Ren had rice with chicken, Eve just had a rainbow snowcone, Hibiki had sushi and Ichiya had this weird bento that had his face on it. Honestly, just the sight was enough for anyone to vomit.
All of the Pegasus boy's were staring blankly at Laxus and the electric lamp right next to him before Ichiya asked, "MEEENNN? What's with the electric lamp?"
Laxus shot a cold glance toward Ichiya and said sarcastically, "What? Never saw a dragon slayer eat its element before?"
"Well, yeah, if we are to count that Salamander." Hibiki answered while eating his sushi.
With that conversation out of the way, we were able to eat our food, tell jokes, and also talk about what we have been doing since we last saw each otherduring the Light Team mission against the Oracion Seis, just so we could pass the time.
When I looked up at the time it was 3:10. We have been in the booth for 3 hours and 40 minutes! Which also means that we're 20 minutes away, from Blue Pegasus and also my new home.
I smiled slightly at the fact I'm going to join a new guild that might treat me fairy unlike those Fairy Tail bastards. I looked over and said to the boys, "I'm gonna get my stuff and get ready. We are gonna leave this train in 20 minutes."
"OK, we'll be here when you're ready to go since we have our stuff already." Hibiki had answered to me.
"Thanks! I'll get your stuff too Laxus!" I said to him.
"OI! Thanks a lot Blondie!" Laxus said to me as he continued to eat his electric lamp. (-_-)
"Yeah…" With that, I left the front of the train back to our compartment and prepare our bags.
(3rd Person P.O.V)
What Lucy didn't know that those 5 boys were gonna have a very serious talk right about that time.
OMG! Lucy and Laxus encountered the Blue Pegasus boys on the train ride. This was probably my longest chapter that I have written ever with a count of 3,000 words. Wasn't that just a precious LaLu moment?! So I better hear some praise in the review later! Later, an O.C will be introduced and cause more tension between the boys. Now, what will the boys talk about now that Lucy left to grab the luggage? Will their conversation be intense or dull as a sack of potatoes? Stay tuned next time for, 'Turning Your Back on a Nakama.' PLEASE REMEMBER TO REVIEW!