Heyy, chapter up! So much homework I swear teachers don't let us breathe! .
Anyway, I will let you read... :D
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Chapter 18
Lucy's POV
"Natsu! Stop thinking of food!" I scold the pink-haired mage.
"Ohh! A cake shop!" Erza shouts and runs off inside.
"I think we are all hungry here." Wendy states and all of our stomach make a loud noise as if on cue.
"Err, come on. Let's find a place to eat, and then go look for droopy eyes?" Natsu suggests. At that moment, I see a girl with cat-ears and tail walked into an alleyway, and bumps into 2 guys. I turn back my attention towards the group and see Gray.
"Who're you calling droopy eyes, hot-head?" Gray asks, walking towards us.
"Where have you been, bastard? I'm starving!"
"None of your business" Gray rolls his eyes. We continue to walk, and Erza join us, carrying a bag.
"Did you buy a cake Erza-san?" Wendy asks in which she nods in response.
I turn back to look at the cat girl and see her being pulled back into the alley by invisible hands, her eyes wide. I frown. 'It could have been her walking backwards, but where were the two guys earlier?' I chew my lips, she looked a little scared. "Err guys..." I trail off as I walk slowly towards the alley. 'I'm going to check it out.'
"Huh?" Natsu scratches his head.
"Did you see something Lucy?" Charle asks.
"Aye, I see fish!" Happy says, eyeing a seafood restaurant.
I nod, ignoring Happy and say, "It could have been my imagination, but I think a girl got pulled in the alley."
We arrive at the opening of the alley and see the cat girl is surrounded by a group of guys, who are attacking her with magic all at once, and there seems to be something shimmering in front of her. The astonishing thing is, none of the attack hits her.
"Holy shit!" Gray yells and runs forward and we all follow. Natsu punches someone with his flaming fist while Erza easily knocks out another with just a punch. I take out my Fleuve d'étoile and swing it at guy coming my way. He is knocked out but then the flexible matter vanishes, leaving only the handle in my hand.
"Crap, this need to be fixed!" I say to myself, and then the rectangular handle glows in my hands and disappears. "I hope it went back to the celestial spirit world and not somewhere else." I look up and saw the group of guys is knocked out, and a split second later the shimmering in front of the cat girl disappears and I watch her fall to the ground. All of us run to her and I suggest, "She needs to recover. Let's take her back to my apartment."
Gray carries her and the rest of us walk alongside him. I open the door to my apartment, and for the first time it was empty, no one broke in as they are with me.
"Damn, her body is so hot." Gray states.
"Pervert!" I yell at him as Erza knocks him on the head.
"Pfft~" Natsu covers his mouth trying not to laugh.
"I meant temperature wise! Jeez." Gray lays the cat girl down on my bed and I place a cloth dipped in cold water on her forehead. We sit down on the couches and wait for the girl to be conscious again.
Juvia's POV
I am following Gray-sama's group. It seems that they are out shopping. 'Gray-sama! He looks so dreamy with his unbutton shirt!'
"Err guys..." Lucy says and walk slowly towards an alley. I watch Gray-sama follow his group to the alley.
"Aww~ Why does Gray-sama has to follow Lucy?" I complain to myself.
I follow them quietly and hear Gray shouts, "Holy shit!" I gasp at his foul language, hands covering my mouth but then a fantasy creeps into my mind, where Gray says 'Holy Shit!' while looking at me. I blush at the imagination and gush, "So cool even when he uses such language! Ahhhh!"
I look, only to see that Gray is carrying a girl with cat-ears and a tail, bride-style. My imagination instantly crushed, my heart broken into a hundred pieces. I continue to follow them up to Lucy's apartment. "Why is Gray-sama carrying that girl?!" I cry. "NO Gray-sama belongs to Juvia. Why is he..." I trail off, sniffing.
"Damn, her body is so hot." I hear my beloved Gray-sama's voice say. I feel my heart breaks into a thousand more pieces.
I feel this great sadness, but suddenly anger takes over and I want to know who this girl he is talking about. Anger builds up inside and a dark aura emits around me. "LOVE RIVAL!"
Back to Lucy's POV
"Who were those guys, do you think?" Wendy asks.
"Probably some perverts." Gray says and Natsu adds, "Trying to take advantage, how low can they get?" I agree.
"They can do magic though, and so can she" Charle states. That's true too. There's probably more to it than just perverts.
"What was that thing she did back there? I don't know, it might have been my imagination but I thought the attacks didn't hit her at all and she was kind of...floating?" I say trying not to sound like a crazy person, but I guess I failed because the rest of them are looking at me with disbelief. I sigh.
"You saw that too? I thought it was only me, had too much cake probably." Erza says, takes me by surprise.
"Yeah, it was kind of shimmering" Gray says. He turns to Natsu, "You were closest to her, what did you see?"
"It looked like a bubble to me." He replies.
"Yeah, Lucy's right. None of the attacks hit her; it was like she was behind an invisible shield." Erza says. We all nod in agreement. 'So I am not crazy.'
"What should we do with her?" Happy asks.
"We should let her rest-" Charle was cut off by a loud sound behind us, like something fell.
I turn to look and see the cat girl is on the floor, face-down. We crowd around her and Happy breaks the silence, "You're awake!" 'Obvious much?'
"I'm sorry, I have to go." The cat girl says and gets up too quickly that she staggers forward, probably dizzy. Luckily, Gray catches her arm, stopping her from falling.
"No, you're not going anywhere until you eat something." Erza says. 'Bossy!' With that, we steer her to sit on the sofa and offer her food. She hesitates, but then her stomach grumbles and she gives in.
"Where am I?" The cat girl asks.
"Lucy's apartment." Erza replies.
"What's your name?" I ask, in which she replies 'Lia Katmist'.
"I've heard of that name before." Charle says.
"Really?" Wendy asks, surprised. 'Well, this is interesting.'
Charle turns to Happy and says, "Happy, remember we talked to the cat that comes for food and her name is Lia Katmist too." 'Definitely interesting.'
This time, Happy looked surprised, "Really?" The cat girl laughs and I see Charle face-palmed herself. 'I feel you, Charle, I feel you.'
"Yes, you are Lia Katmist, and the cat." Charle states, making Lia smile.
We are really confused and exclaim in unison, "Whaaaat?" Cat girl shrugs.
"Wait. Are you originally human or originally a cat?" Natsu asks, scratching his head.
"Natsu! Of course she's human! She only transformed into a cat." I smack him on the head. He cries out from the pain. "Ohh you're that cat." I realized, the cat that comes to the guild every day and Mira feeds it, and often falls asleep on the wooden bridge that supports the roof. 'Wow, she's been there for years and we didn't even know. I feel kinda stupid.'
"What an idiot." Gray says while rolling his eyes.
"What? You wanna start a fight?" Natsu challenges.
"I can fight you anytime and you'll lose." Gray replies.
"Boys, behave." Erza says. "Aye!" Both say in unison.
"But she got cat ears and a tail..." Natsu trails off, and finally adds, "The same as Millianna. Oohhh..." I roll my eyes.
"How old are you?" Wendy asks in which Lia responds 17 years old. "Oh you are just a year older than I am and Romeo-kun." She extends out her hand and say, "I hope we can be friends." They shook hands. Wendy is always kind.
"So you can do magic?" Gray asks.
"Which guild are you from?" Natsu shot.
"What was that thing you did in the alley?" Erza fires another question. She looks at the three of them back and forth.
"You guys, slow down! You're making her uncomfortable." I scold them.
She answers Gray's question, "Yes I can do magic." Then turns to Natsu, "I don't belong to any guild" and finally to Erza, "What thing?"
"You did something and the attacks just dissolved, the magic didn't touch you at all." Erza describes.
"Umm, honestly I had no idea. But one thing I know, that surely zapped all of my energy." She replies.
"What type of magic can you do?" I ask, out of curiosity.
"I can transform into a cat, not like Happy and Charle, but the normal ones. I can also transform into different types of tigers and cat-like creatures. I can do a bit of requip too, and that shield thingy if you count that."
We stare at her in awe. Her magic sounds amazing, she can do transformation and requip, and that are like Erza and Lisanna in one.
"So you are that cat from the guild?" Erza asks. She nods.
Suddenly, she turns to me and asks, "Lucy, you are a celestial spirit mage, am I right?"
"Yes, I am. Why?" I respond.
She looked shy, like she's about to ask me something embarrassing. "Well, when I was around 10 years old, I went to a magic shop and the shopkeeper gave me this." She takes out something from her belt and hands it to me: a gold key. I examine the gold key. The gold key's handle has the shape of a diamond with curled points at the top and bottom side and a long oval shape in the middle. The end of the key is also in the shape of a diamond but smaller with curled points at the top. 'It looks really pretty and strange.'
'Wait a minute, is this... Is this a celestial gold key? Oh my god, could this be? I gasp. 'No it can't be. But how did she get this key?' I have a mixture of feelings at the moment. I will be the happiest person alive if this is the real deal, but then I shouldn't get my hopes up because it might turn out to be a fake, but if it is real, oh my god I think I will faint.
Aha guys, I will not be updating frequently because I'm busy with college work :/ Apologies~
Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter :) Yeah, decided to make Lucy's POV and then Juvia's POV last minute :P
