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"Maybe we should bring the fight club people here to plan." Zeref said quietly. I nodded my head and yelled at Gajeel to go find Juvia, while Zeref and I went to get Midnight and Mystogan. I pulled Zeref along with me as we raced to the Love & Lucky dorms, where we found Midnight asleep on a chair.
"YO MIDNIGHT WAKE UP WE NEED YOU FOR THAT THING!" I yelled in his ear. He shot straight up and fell off the chair. "Where is Mystogan?" I say in a low voice so no one hears. He glares at me but gestures to follow him, we found him up in a Sakura blossom tree where no one could find him. "Did you tell him?" I asked Midnight, and he nodded his head. "And he said 'yes', right?" another nod. "Ok. GET DOWN HERE!" I shouted up the tree where Mystogan dropped down in a crouch position.
"Great let's go. I can't have Gajeel beating me at being first, now can I?" I laughed evilly to myself not noticing the other two asking Zeref if i was still sane to which he smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "COME ON!" I said before running off pulling Zeref with me.
We were back at Min-min's house and everyone was already at the garage. d*mnit… We sat down and wrote some of what we had to do.
hand to hand combat
using some sort of weapon
agility training
power training
"Great. Only four steps, nice and simple." I said. "Alright, what do you mean by weapon? Magic is scarce now, hardly anyone knows how to use it." Midnight asked. I looked at Gajeel. "You must become one with nature, and believe in magic, to gain magical powers." I nodded my head. "So we must meditate somewhere in nature? And stop killing spiders…" I looked down, guilty.
Zeref patted my back, "It's alright, everyone kills spiders every now and then." He spoke softly to me, mocking me. I laughed a little and nodded my head and sighed. "So, we're really gonna learn… Magic?" He nodded. "Well, then what's the most peaceful place close to nature?" I asked Mystogan. He smirked a little, "A waterfall. Follow me." He said, and walked to the side of the neighborhood that has a forest a few rows of houses down.
We walked a long ways, finally stopping at a breathtaking sight. A beautiful waterfall cascading down rocky cliffs and pooling into a small stream. It wasn't deep and rocks stood up where the waterfall came down, where Mystogan was sitting. He sat crosslegged in meditation under the waterfall, getting soaked. "Your goal is to be completely calm even when the raging waters are all around you…" He murmured.
I nodded and sat on a rock next to him. It was hard to focus with the water pouring down on your head and sounds of it hitting the ground. I took a deep breath in, let it out slowly, repeat, take more breaths. I focused on breathing, I closed my eyes, and listened to the sounds around me. I shut out the raging waters and listen to the bird's call, the rustling bushes, tree branches shaking when the wind blows harshly.
I completely lost myself in the beautiful sounds of nature, breathing in and out the whole time, I felt peaceful. The rhythm of all our breaths coming in and letting go in perfect timing. It seemed like there was no time, it could've been a few seconds, maybe minutes, maybe hours. I didn't open my eyes until I heard the murmur of Mystogan telling us to open them.
I opened my eyes to see the rest of them completely peaceful in a meditative state. back straight, legs crossed, and hands resting in their lap or on their knees. "How long has it been?" I heard Zeref murmur. "Juvia thinks it has been a few hours." I heard Juvia say. I nodded my head and we all got up, still sleepy from the meditation. I looked down and remembered I was soaking wet. Luckily, I didn't wear a white shirt today. Neither did Juvia. (Thank goodness…)
I took Zeref's outstretched hand and smiled back at him. We all walked in silence to Minerva's house, and just let the air and sun dry us. We watched another scary movie but this time I was much more calm. "How about we watch *horror movie*?" Minerva asked. I just yawned and nodded, "I won't get too scared this time…" I said. Zeref leaned over and whispered to me "But you look cute when you're scared."
I blushed cherry red and sputtered nonsense while he whistled, looking at the ceiling, with his hands clasped behind his back pretending to be innocent. Flare giggled, "What did you tell blondie?" She said with her head tilted to the side and a smile on her face. "Nooooothiiiiiing…" He said.
Minerva turned on the television, and everyone settled in. Gajeel was in the big comfy chair, Midnight was on the floor with his arms crossed and… might have been asleep, Mystogan was actually spread out on the floor on his stomach like a child, the three girls were all on the couch giggling to each other and I was standing next to the television half asleep.
Minerva sighed, "Lucy, you're way too tired. Go get some sleep in the guest room." I nodded and yawned, before falling on the ground asleep.
Zeref came into the room, seeing the sleeping Lucy on the floor and shaking his head with a smile of amusement. Everyone else was amused when he sighed and picked up Lucy bridal style and carried her to the guest room. He laid Lucy on the bed and pulled up the covers over her. He yawned, and rubbed his eyes. And then somehow ended up hugging Lucy in her sleep with her head on his chest… just like last time.
I woke up and yawned, before noticing Zeref was still hugging me like I would vanish in a puff of smoke. I giggled and poked his face until he blinked his eyes waking up and yawning. cute. "Zeref… wake up…" I poked his face again until he mumbled something, but shot up when he noticed he was still hugging me. "Come on, let's go make breakfast!"
He nodded and yawned again. I pulled him out of bed and we walked to the kitchen, where everyone was sitting looking amused. Minerva started, "Sooooooooooo, I came in to check on you last night and look what I found." She waved a picture of us hugging each other. "Do they do this often?" Mystogan asked Midnight. "Dont. You. Dare." I growled at him.
He blinked in mock innocence. "Whaaat? Me, tell Mystogan that you owe so secretly study together every night? Why would I do that?" Mystogan raised his eyebrows with a look of amusement. "We are studying. Without me, Lucy would fail english." Zeref said quietly with an amused smile on his face. "It's true.." I muttered quietly, looking down.
The rest of the morning was more planning and other things, but after lunch was when we started the fighting. "Alright, how about we have permanent training partners but once in a while go battle royal?" I said with an evil smirk on my face. Gajeel 'Gihi'ed and nodded, Zeref nodded, Midnight smirked, Juvia nodded excitedly, Minerva said "Alright, sounds good.", Mystogan thought about for a few seconds before nodding, and Flare… Jumped up and grabbed Lucy's arm.
"MY PARTNER IS BLONDIE!" She shouted. Minerva smirked a bit, "Good. She totally wouldn't go all out on Zeref." I just shook my head in amusement. "I'd love to be your partner Flare!" I hugged her back and we laughed. "I wish to be Mystogan's partner." Zeref said quietly. Mystogan nodded, and Gajeel crossed his arms in annoyance.
"I'll go with Juvia." He said, which left Midnight with Minerva. We all seemed mostly happy with our partners, and got to work. Stretching a bit first, Mystogan counted down "3… 2… 1… Start." I threw a punch at Flare's stomach and she kicked my left side. We both blocked and I threw a kick to her head that she dodged by crouching down and sweeping out my legs. I got back up right away and threw a punch to the ribcage that hit.
"OOF!" She stumbled a bit then punched me, I blocked. I punched her and she blocked before hitting me with a kick. We went on for a little bit before getting tired out and sitting down, slightly injured. I looked over to where Mystogan and Zeref were, they were amazing.
Doing flips and perfecting kicks, they could jump high in the air too. They both had serious faces on, mostly dodging everything. It was more graceful and agile, not really blocking or powerfully attacking. I relied on my former ballet lessons to keep me light on my feet and flexible.
Gajeel and Juvia, Midnight and Minerva, were going all out. Midnight and Minerva were powerhouses, even if they didn't look like it. Gajeel was the powerhouse and Juvia was a little of everything, I was quick and agile but I can't fight very well. Flare was more like Juvia, a little of everything.
By now, everyone had stopped. "It would be best if the next time we meet I can correct you and help you get better at your fighting styles. You were very good Zeref." Mystogan said. I nodded and we left to our own homes, Zeref, Midnight, and I walked home together as did Gajeel and Juvia. Minerva was at her house already, Flare walked alone, and Mystogan… was off doing whatever Mystogans do.
Zeref and I went to my room for another study session. I really don't want to fail english. "Hey Zeref, could you help me on my fighting? You're a lot better than me on it." He smiled a bit and nodded. We stood up, "Punch my hand." I hit it as hard as I could as soon as I noted that I definitely wouldn't hurt him.
It was very weak but he didn't mind. He took my hand in his, "Don't wrap your fingers around your thumb, it'll break." He took my thumb and wrapped it around my middle and ring finger. Then he stood next to me, "Shift your whole body when you punch to give it power. Use both hands, too." He asked me to punch the air again, and helped me over and over until I did a perfect punch.I punched his fist one last time and he stumbled back and smiled. "Perfect." "YES!" I yelled and hugged him. He chuckled and hugged me back.
We went back to studying, we sat next to each other instead of facing each other this time, it seemed like a better way to compare notes. He sighed, shaking his head in amusement and reached over to correct another grammar mistake. I clenched my fists in anger of my mistake, mad at myself. He reached up and smoothed out my eyebrows with my thumb, silently telling me to calm down. I sighed, smiled at him, and we got back to studying.