Hey guy's I know I'm still working on a few other stories at this current moment in time but my real life is a little hectic right now trying to balance my work and social life, so I'm bringing to you this WHOLE! Brand new story! That me and my fiancé have been talking about and I just can't get the idea out of my head, so this story is brought to you by CureDream90 and Articdragonslayer!

WARNING SLIGHT LEMON IN THIS CHAPTER

Chapter 5

Darkness, that's all that could be seen within the dark walls of this place, a young man was tied to a chair his head down, deep purple bruises was dotted all over his face and arms, Dirt on his face. His breathing steady counting from 10 to 0, the lights was turned on, the brightness made his eye's close slightly looking up to a man with long jet black hair down his back.

"Hmmm, someone doesn't seem to be in a talkative mood today," but the man in the chair never spoke, his eye's was just hard. "Well Mr Jinks, I suppose you'll have to go through another round until you give us the answers that we need" he knelt down to his level, "I would never! Tell you anything! Just give up the Artefact that your using to kill people and I'll make sure prison life is hell for you!"

The man just laughed as he stood up, he turned his back, "I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about, I do not use these so called Artefacts, that your warehouse poorly protects, Seriously my men could easily ransack that place and kill all your little friends, now tell me …. Where the future Caretaker is…"

The mans eye's widened, he had been stuck in this abandoned house on the outskirts of south Dakota for a week, maybe longer and never once had they asked him where the future caretaker was, "You know who I'm talking about, the one who has the power to run all that ammunition to cause total chaos around the world, but fortunately for you like I said, I don't want the artefacts, I just want the future caretaker, now ….Where….is….she…"

Jinks looked to him and his eye's hardened, "you made a mistake coming after me then, because I haven't seen the future caretaker in a little over 8 years, for all I know she could have left America all together" the tall man was losing his patients, he pulled his fist back and swiftly made it connect with Mr Jinks face, a sickening crack could be heard and the taste of metallic substance was in his mouth.

"She's in America, in fact I know something that you don't…" he knelt down, "The Metronome, she used to bring you back from the dead was destroyed, and it separated your connection to her correct?" Jinks spat blood to the floor, "That was a long time ago, I beat it and took control back over my life, I broke the connection to her pain so she could live!"

"WRONG!, in fact that little connection is still there," A sinister grin was held on the mans face, his red eye's gleaming with a sickening pride, "There was a hidden downside to that Metronome Agent Jinks, the fact is, I know she's coming for you, because it wasn't only you that just felt the pain of me breaking your jaw….."

Agent jinks eye's widened, "No…. that can't be… Claudia…"

The man stood and began laughing, "When she finally gets here, I will have her…. That beautiful goddess with all that power will be mine." His laugh filled up the room, leaving a stunned jinks behind, "No Claudia… it's a trap…. Go back…." He clenched his jaw grimcing from the pain, but stopped himself, if his soul was still connected to the woman that brought him back, then she felt his ribs shatter a week ago. "please….be safe…."

North Dakota – America

Lucy looked shocked to see Laxus had heard about her secret, she could see Rage and betrayal in his eyes, but shock was the overwhelming one, "Answer me Blondie, when the fuck was you going to tell me that you're a god slayer! And since WHEN!"

Her body shook, tears filled up in her eyes HIS! Words echoing through her mind 'only tell people about your training and new magic when the time is right my old friend, as the first person that you will tell….will be your one true soul mate'

"Laxus… please… i…." he shook his head and stalked up to her his hand gripping her arm slightly tight that it began to hurt, "Laxus please…you're…" "No, you listen to me, Ever since this whole thing started a week ago you've been keeping secrets from me, from EVERYONE! Who the fuck was that guy? Who the fuck is Claudia Donovan, WHO THE FUCK! ARE WE CHASING!" Lucy was shaking, closing her eye's flinching at his loud voice, if anything she hated more than being alone was the fear of being shouted at, it brought on memories of her past.

Just as she was about to speak she suddenly grabbed her jaw, Pain shooting across her brown eye's, trying to keep a strangled cry from escaping her lips, she bit down onto her lip trying to hold back the tears, too much was happening at once, Laxus, Jinksy, Todd showing up, Secrets and this mission.

The Lightening dragon slayer knew that look of pain in her eyes, she held that same look when she felt her ribs shatter a week ago, this phantom pain was happening again, not a moment later, she dropped to her knees as a scream ripped through her body causing him to drop down beside her.

"Lucy? Lucy! What's happening?" he went to touch her cheek but she just edged backwards "D…don't touch it please….. don't touch…. They….who ever has Jinksy….broke his jaw…"

The man clenched his own jaw, he knew how it felt to have his jaw broken, he knew the pain what she was going through but she's refusing his help, that's when he saw it, not only pain, but fear in her eye's, deep fear, he had yelled at her, he noticed her flinch at his raised voice but he didn't care, he had wanted answers.

Picking her up he placed her on the sofa and retrieved an ice pack from the freezer, "Here…this may help numb the pain…." Gently he managed to peel her hands away from the now bruised jaw, "Lucy…. I'm sorry I was a first grade Arse hole, I'm just out of the loop here, you need to help me out a little bit"

The blonde goddess opened up her brown eyes, and looked up into his stormy blue ones, ones that held love and protection, she sighed sitting up and patted a space on the couch next to her, which he took without a moments hesitation.

"It…started two months ago after Gramps disbanded team natsu" she took a deep breath curling up leaning her head onto his shoulder, "the team stopped coming and crashing into my apartment, slowly during the first week, I didn't know what to do, first it was Natsu he started going on missions with Lisanna, then it was Gray he'd teamed up with Juvia and lastly at the end of the first week it Erza left me alone. I felt abandoned the fear I had as a child since my mother died I was back where I started alone with no friends, so I came into the guild one day and headed out for a mission to take out a small group of bandits…."

Her breathing slowed a little, "The mission itself was going well at first, they had been kidnapping young women and I had managed to track them by having Gemini transform into Asuka, it lured them into my trap I had set, Loke and Scorpio out ready to attack when I gave the word. Once the men grabbed Asuka, she transformed back into Gemini and Loke hit the first one with his Regulas beam and I took out the second one with my whip but Scorpio was unlucky, he was hit and sent back to the celestial realm.

My anger grew, one of my family members was hurt because I didn't see 3 more mages I was so stupid, so I attacked, my magic growing out of control, I already had two gates open and the 3rd had been forced closed because I was stupid, so I summoned two more! Spirits! Loke pleaded with me to send one of them back but I couldn't I was angry I wanted revenge so while my spirits took most of them, I faced the leader by myself."

She closed her eye's gripping Laxus shirt, he could feel her trembling, "That's when I was careless, I didn't notice the last member, the leaders body guard, as I went to strike the leader attacked me from behind with his own re-quip magic, it wasn't as strong as Erza's but it hurt, it had cut my back up rather badly, but instead of staying down I summoned my 5th spirit Taurus and we took them all down, but once the leader was taken care off I slowly began to loose consciousness, and then next thing I knew, I was in a hospital bed, Loke had kept his own gate open to carry me off for help.

I will never forget the look on his face when I woke up, his eye's was red, glasses missing and gripping onto my hand like a lifeline, I had almost died on my very first solo mission because I was careless, Virgo had taken all the bandits to the magic council as well as freeing all the kidnapped women/children. I had been out for a few days and he'd taken care of everything, keeping his gate open to watch over me, crying as he'd thought he'd lose me. When I was awake, he held me close being so gentle not to disturb the wound on my back, I was scolded for being careless and then it happened."

She let go of his shirt sitting back looking into her lovers eye's, "Time stopped, and HE! Showed up, his arms crossed a gentle look on his face, his voice soft but it still boomed off every wall in the hospital. HE! Offered me a chance to train my increasing magic, and I took it without a second thought. Thinking that if I was stronger then I could protect my spirits from ever being hurt like Scorpio was and then I began taking mission after mission, because even though it seemed like two months to you, it was actually 2 years for me…he stopped time every time he came, and trained me….it didn't take me long to finally have control and master my new magical powers, it also increased my friendship and bonds with my spirits. He had helped me grow and become what I am now."

Her voice held slight proudness to it as she looked to him, "I'm the Celestial God Slayer Laxus, and I was trained by the only person out there that held this magic…..The Celestial Spirit King."

Laxus blue eye's widened, of course when she had first mentioned that time stopped he should have clicked onto it being something to do with the Spirit king, he took her left hand kissing her knuckles ever so gently, "but why keep this a secret?" she sighed and looked to him, "I was ashamed that I had lost control, I was weak and guilt ridden, I had caused my friends sadness and pain, something they didn't deserve, Scorpio was hurt because of me, so it felt right to keep it a secret, then the God Slayer magic, well Stash face said for me not to tell anyone until I found my soul mate…. I was going to tell you about my magic once we had mated."

His face flustered up at the sound of her being his mate, from her own words, he was estatic that she wanted to be his mate, he couldn't imagine though keeping all this a secret, the guilt that was held deep inside her heart. He wanted to wash it all away, "Can I see it?"

Raising her blonde eye brow to him, she was confused, "There's bound to be a scar on your back, I'd like to see it…." But she stiffened, biting her lip "it's ok if you don't want to…."

Shaking her head, "It's not that…. But my back…. It …. Like I said to you the other night back at the ocean when I told you, that you don't only get sweet and innocent package?" he nodded, "There's more to my past then that…. But … I don't…" her words was cut off by his lips crashing on hers, giving her the most gentlest kiss, it made her melt into his arms that held her.

It was only a short one, but it reassured her that he wasn't going anywhere, and that he wouldn't pressure her into it, "I don't care if you come with baggage, hell I come with baggage also, we will work through it together ok? show me when you're ready," she nodded as he rubbed her back, that's when he felt them, through her vest, slightly raised bumps. He had felt one long one stretching down but he guessed that was from her mission, but the other ones he felt, they was smaller, some crossed over into another. He wouldn't push his luck, but whoever hurt his goddess would pay.

He leaned down and kissed her neck, and breathed in her scent, strawberry's and chocolate, it made him feel wild. He let his tongue lose and run up a pulsing vain in her neck stopping just below her chin, "L…laxus?" "Shhh…..this will only hurt slightly ok?" she gulped and nodded "I trust you…"

He kissed the vain, before his teeth sank in, sucking ever so hard, his magic sent ripples of electric through her body, her nails digging into his back as a slight whimper escaped her lips, it lasted for about 5 minutes before he let go, licking the blood that he'd drawn, and looked at his handy work, there forming was a two streaks of lightening crossing over right in the middle of her neck looking just like a normal tattoo, behind the bolts of light, was a midnight blue star, he had finally claimed her, but that didn't stop there, he felt her hands in his hair and Yank his head to the side giving her full blown access to his own neck.

"My turn big guy…" he just grinned feeling her soft tongue before she assaulted his own neck.

((Sorry guy's, No sex included to mate in this story! That comes later! XP))

The next day

The heat of the Dessert was killing the lightening Dragon slayer as he hung his head out of the window of Lucy's silver Prius, After a very emotional night it had sent his mind into over drive, he couldn't sleep properly for some reason he kept seeing a man with a leather belt, his face covered in darkness, and then sharp pains before jolting awake,

His sweet mate was laying beside him, on her right side, to stop the pain from hurting in her jaw. When he had seen the bruise left on her cheek from the phantom pain from this Jinksy, he let out an animalistic growl, No one was going to touch his woman from now on, he would fight and battle away all her fears and kiss away all her pain.

What had confused him the most was the sharp pain he felt in his own jaw and ribs, it had been said to him by Gajeel none the less that when a Dragon mates with his woman, his soul would become one with hers, and he would feel her pain, so at least he knew that she definatly wasn't lying about her being connected to another person.

Laxus also didn't like that idea either, She wasn't supposed to have her soul connected to anyone but him that's not how it worked so this all confused him.

Taking a drink from the Coke he had snagged from Lucy's stash in the back seat, he'd slowly become addicted to, he groaned he couldn't wait till they had stopped traveling for good and got to this South Dakota, for the past 2 hours all he'd seen was orange sand, coughing on the dust every now and again. There was a road sign for every 10 miles they had passed.

Music coming from the CD player was calming his nerves, somehow Blondie had managed to take his sound pod that ran purely off his magic and connected it to the car, allowing his music to fill both their ears, he wasn't about to question on how she did it but, she knew how to sooth him.

He also had to hold back the sudden urge to claim her in bed also, that urge had grown since they had mated with each other, and he could tell it was just as hard for her, but he knew she wasn't ready to take that step, especially with her back, he had felt so many scars on it, which only left his imagination to wonder what her back actually looked like. His thoughts was suddenly pulled away when he heard her voice. "Finally! Univille 30 miles away! First thing were doing is stopping at the diner for some damn good grub! I could really go for one of their burgers and a slice of key lemon pie."

Her voice was back, filled with excitement, he let lose a genuine smile then looked into the mirror, on the right side of his neck was two golden celestial keys crossed over, with a streak of blue lightening crashing through them, it was her mating mark to him and he loved it. Remembering the words she had mentioned to him last night after the mark was complete.

Flashback

Lucy stood there, looking into the eyes of the man she loved, "I see Gajeel was wrong, you don't have to fuck each other to mate with them, he just wanted to get into Levy's pants, this will also be a great advantage to us…. According to Loke, once we'd mated we can also use each other's magic, so I can use some of your lightening attacks…" she winced slightly for some unknown reason, "And you are able to summon my spirits, when we hit Univille and settled in at the BnB I'll teach you how to summon one of my weaker spirits Plue… to get use to the idea."

Laxus nodded, "Gajeel said the same thing, I didn't believe him until he shouted Script Iron and a big slab of Iron landed on the table, so this means I'll have to teach you on how to use my weaker spells….. and you missy in future will have to tell me why you don't like Lightening so much." She couldn't help but laugh and kissed his lips, "That's another story, for another time….for now just….please hold me, I'm exhausted" and that's what he did, all night long he held her, while nightmares plagued his mind of a mysterious man and pain.

End of flashback

"Getting some grub and maybe a cold beer will do us good, this is your fifth day driving this torture device….don't god slayers get motion sickness too?"

Lucy just grinned back at him and stuck her tongue out, "Don't tell me you forgot to speak to Wendy about grabbing up some motion sickness pills?" his jaw dropped to the floor, how had he forgotten about the little sky dragon slayer and her magic pills was beyond him. "You…..are….pure….evil Blondie…."

She just grabbed her drink taking a long sip through the straw before placing it down, "no I just have more brain cells than you do bolts" he rolled his eyes at the new nickname as the car slowed down outside the red American diner where we would be eating, the last words he heard from the blondes mouth before shutting off the engine was, "home sweet home…"

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And that concludes the journey From Magnolia to America, who is this dark person that want's the future caretaker?

What is the future caretaker? Only Warehouse13 lovers will know, but it will all be explained in the next chapter!

Why is Laxus having dreams of someone beating him?

Will Lucy see Jinksy?

Curedream90 Over and out!