(A/N): Hiya there, peoples! How's everyone been doing? Well, I presume? How am I doing, you ask? Hmmm I just submitted my Final, and I feel as happy as a clam sitting next to a vegetarian! As happy as a kitty next to catnip! Yap! I feel so relieved, because now I can start to put more focus on my writing and submitting chapters more often! Please read, review, favorite, follow!

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail and its characters belong to Hiro Mashima, and the characters from Treasure Planet from the 200-something version of Treasure Planet belong to those guys!

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CHAPTER SIX

Lucy walked back down the road, holding a canister of soup in one hand and the day's news in the other. When Grandine had pushed all of the workers out the back door, she hadn't realized that she was halfway down the road until she stopped hearing her coworkers murmuring behind her.

'Oh well...maybe I have enough free time to finally buy those cookies,' She thought to herself. Her footsteps bounced lightly upon the dirt road until she came upon the quaint and humble bakery down the road. She pushed in the door and was announced by the slight 'ding!' of the bell, and out popped a small blue head from behind the store. The person scurried around behind the desk, and then Lucy jumped as a face suddenly jumped out to greet her.

"Why, hello there! How can we at Ladybug Bakery help you today?"

"Hello...um, this is my first time coming in here, and I was wondering...those cookies you had on display last week-"

"Oh! Those were our Razzleberry Raisin Cookies! Freshly made with imported Razzleberries from the Omega Quadrant," the girl sighed dreamily, looking off to the display casing in the front, holding said cookies on a platter.

Lucy cleared her throat lightly and looked down. "Well I was wondering….how much for a dozen?"

"12 Starstones."

Lucy clenched her hands in dismay. 'Seems that I should have worked harder for those tips...I don't have enough on me right now.' She looked behind the girl to the shelves, and decided to buy the first thing she saw.

"Well, maybe next time. Could I have that soup instead?"

The girl's face fell slightly, but she smiled again. "Sure thing! The name's Levy, by the way. I've seen you around. You're new, right? What's your name?" she asked as she moved her stool to the shelves, stretching for the soup container.

"Lucy. How'd you know I was new?" she asked, curiosity getting the better of her.

Levy just smiles and says simply, "All of us here are all gossipers. We haven't gotten new people in a long time. S'kinda boring after a while, so you were talk of the neighborhood for a while! There's never anythin' really interesting in this planet, so there's nothing to talk about to other people. Especially when those who come to visit this place are usually just old geezers or somethin', ya know? I mean, I've got nothing against old dudes, but really, don't they have anything better to do than to give me advice on how to get a guy? I don't want a man. I want adventure! Explosions! Hell, pardon my french, I'd even take up some weird assignment to save the world over serving people their cookies and bread!"

The blue haired girl busied herself with babbling about adventure, all the while ringing up the can of soup, oblivious to the other girl's flaming red cheeks. Or how the girl's pinching her thigh to her ever growing fear at bay.

Lucy tries to smile at Levy, and her attempt must appease the girl, as she waves goodbye, and Lucy all but runs out and down the street, turning a corner to hide from the public eye to break down in private.

She pushes against a wall, and clutches the canister to her chest, the only weight holding her in place, and she tries to breathe as evenly as possible to calm herself down.

"Easy girl, easy. No one's gonna find you. You'll be okay...you'll be okay. It's okay. Everything's okay. You won't go back. Just work harder, and you can leave this godforsaken planet. Make a new life. New life. Life. Life. Life," she repeated to herself, sighing as her heart finally slowed to a calmer, more relaxed pace. Lucy wiped the sweat accumulated from her moment of panic and notices out of the corner of her eye a newspaper on the floor. She walks over to pick it up and gasps at the title:

BANDITS LEAVE TRAIL OF BODIES, POLICE INVESTIGATING DEATHS OF -

She tears her gaze away from the title, tears threatening to run over her eyes once again. But she bites her lip determinedly, and walks down the street with newspaper in hand, until what lays before her stops her in her tracks.

Where what used to be an inn, police cams were set up. Smoke clouded the atmosphere, trails of ash etched into the ground where the Police Drones have set up the perimeters for the public. She looks around to see what has been saved, but it appears that the fire ate through the whole building, leaving nothing to those residing in it. Her hands grip the can tightly, needing something to support her pain at witnessing all that she had lost, once again to something that might have very well been all her fault.

(A/N): So I know this one's pretty short, but I was stuck on this part for a while and it was killing me that I had absolutely NOOO inspiration whatsoever as to how to finish it. I'm hoping that now that that's over, I will have more of an idea of how I want to write this. Please, if you liked what you read, leave a review, favorite, follow. I'm putting my stuff on Tumblr too, (same username) so feel free to check it out there too! Bye bye now! :D