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 8 – The power of blood

Morning soon arose in South Dakota Univille, the residents of Leena's bed and breakfast was either risen or still rising from there slumber, especially a particular young blonde female. She was laid on her stomach sheets kicked off, wearing nothing but a black vest and neon pink boxer shorts, her hair fanned out across the pillows gently going into her face.

She was sleeping alone in this lonely double bed due down to the fact that Artie had put his foot down last night with the words of a father speaking 'I don't care if your mated or not! He will not be sleeping in the same room as you young lady until I see a gold wedding band on your finger! So he either gets down on one knee right now or sleeps in the room next to you for the time being!'

And with that she was forced to spend a lonely night without her muscular dragon slayer by her side, around 1am, she had felt Loke close his own gate retreating back to the spirit world, indicating that Pete would be heading off to bed soon AFTER! A midnight snack.

A light knock came to the blondes door, but she just groaned trying to ignore it until the knock became slightly louder. "Go away! Sleepy!" but that didn't get rid of the person wanting to enter her room, she heard the door handle turning but didn't move. "Nice undies blondie," Only to have a purple pillow be thrown at his head. "Shut it sparky,"

She heard his feet walk across the room and the bed dip slightly, "Come on Blondie, it's 10am, the old geezer wanted me to get you up." But only to receive Lucy covering her head with a pillow, "it's only my second day back and he's demanding me to get up? It's not the stone age!" he couldn't help but grin, through the past week Lucy had always gotten up at the crack of dawn to travel but now she wanted to refuse to get up.

He liked this feisty side of her, "Well I could always come and join you in bed, maybe get a little sweet breakfast out of you?" "Screw you Laxus," With them words he couldn't help but grin and slapped her arse, "oh you'd like that, maybe we can get the whole house to hear you scream my name"

She quickly shot up out of bed from the slap and gave him a hard glare, "Touch my arse again and I'll bite you sparky!, we maybe mated but that doesn't give you permission to touch my lady lumps!" she groaned running a hand through her tangled hair, then went over to the suitcase that just laid a mess, deciding that later she'd have to do some laundry, her clothing was starting to run low of stuff that didn't smell. She choose a pair of denim shorts, green vest and some under garnets heading towards the attached bathroom, "Tell the old fossil I'll be down in 20 minutes I'm taking a shower."

"Alright babes, I expect you down there in 20 minutes otherwise I'm dragging you down there naked or not!" with that he stood up and quickly glanced around the room, it had surprised him that it was a bomb shell, gadgets was spread out all over her desk, a laptop and a small black tv thingy he couldn't make out, 2 guitars by the window, keyboard right next to them.

Looking down at the bed, her sheets was a dark shade of purple, whereas the walls was a slightly lighter shade with posters of bands everywhere, he could tell that she lived a different lifestyle here, a rebellious one. Walking towards the door he smiled, 'I hope she plays that thing better than Gajeel does! He fucking can't sing for shit!'

20 minutes later Leena's Kitchen

Lucy entered the kitchen yawning slightly before grabbing a mug filled with coffee already waiting for her, she darted the clothing that she'd picked out and wore her make up darker than normal, there was black mascara and grey eye shadow, that was supported by a light shade of lip gloss.

Her piercings and tattoo's stood out quite well, around her waist supported her brown leather key pouch, along with a black whip to the left side, she took a sip of her coffee until she heard someone behind her, "Meow….You got yourself into some kinky stuff these past few years Claud?" turning around she saw Pete stood there, one hand in the air trying to pur like a cat.

She couldn't help but laugh slightly, "it's one of the things I use in battle Pete," he nodded grabbing a cookie from the kitchen counter, "I'll keep that in mind not to fight you then, oh and Artie would like you down at the Warehouse today, something about checking over the grid for him" letting a light groan slip from her mouth, "I'm suppose so, I'm meant to go with Laxus and Gray to track down Jinksy,"

Pete shrugged, "I could go with them instead, I am a trained secret service agent remember." Shaking her head slightly and sighing "Where are those two anyway? I can't hear them in the house."

"Oh that, Myks took them down to the warehouse, so it's just me and you there waiting on" once them words left his mouth, Lucy's face paled immediately, "Shit! My baby!" slamming the cup down she grabbed Pete by his neck and ran out of the place managing to lock the door.

At the Warehouse – Dessert

Gray looked up at the large building completely stunned, his mouth gaping open slightly and Laxus wasn't too far behind him, "Are you two boys going to just stand there? Or are you going to follow me?" Myka spoke opening the door, immediately Laxus snapped his head to her, scowling slightly and followed grumbling something that he wasn't a boy, it had made him sound like a child.

He grabbed Gray by shirt he had loaned of Pete again, dragging him along, "Hey! Let me go" A steam of ice gathering around his hand until he felt a slight hit on his head, "No magic use Frosty, or do you want me to report this to Gramps?" groaning Gray stopped his magic and shoved his hand into his pockets, They'd not contacted the old man yet, they was waiting for Lucy to get there.

Myka looked to the two men with slight amusement in her face, "oh and don't touch the bombs" with that she went up to a small screen with a small green laser scanning her right eye, that immedatly opened the door.

"It's a security lock that Claudia invented to stop intruders from accessing, I'm more than positive that you two could blast your way through but for us normal humans well. You get the picture." Laxus nodded "I do, When Blondie explained to me about the warehouse last night, she mentioned that a lot of things in here are very dangerous if people use them, she made sure to drill it into my mind that I have to wear these stupid purple gloves also" he held them up.

The brunette bopped her head slightly, "She's correct, they are neutrolizing gloves, so it will stop the artefacts from acting up when you touch them," Once walking through the door both men saw Artie at his computer typing away, and a smaller computer at the desk next to him, to the left there must have been over 500 books, filing cabinets, small draws, to the right there was a shelf with all sorts, a round table with chairs.

And to the back of the room was a sofa, Artie turned around to see the three and sighed rubbing his temples, "Claudia didn't come with you?"

"Sorry old man, she said she'd be here in 20 minutes, she's just taking a shower" Laxus spoke crossing his arms he really didn't like the way this old man was bossing his mate around, "That girl….. I swear she'll be the death of me some day." He took his glasses off and laced his hands together, "Before she gets here then, since I have no choice but to have you here, don't look….don't tell anyone about this place and most importantly, DON'T TOUCH! These are very dangerous artefacts that's been here since the beginning of time, oh and please don't use magic in here."

Gray just grunted, he could tell that the old man wasn't too pleased with them being there or even knowing about this place, truth was, this place was already starting to creep Laxus out, he didn't know how Lucy managed to stay here for a year, he was about to agree until Gray spoke up.

"As if I want to be in any more trouble, the guild masters most likely going to make me wear a bikini while serving in some type of restaurant with sorcery weekly just around the corner…" Artie was about to answer when the door flew open and Lucy panting like crazy, "What…the…hell….did….you…..do this time!" She stalked over to the main computer and began speed typing on the keyboard.

Gray couldn't help be curious but then suddenly regretted it seeing numbers he didn't understand, making his eye's go funny.

She then turned to Artie, Gray knew that face, it was the one she used to stop him and Natsu fighting, he suddenly went and hid behind Myka who was just confused. "YOU SWAPPED OUT MY BINARY CODES WITH RANDOM NUMBERS! YOU JUST TOTALLY SCREWED UP THE ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT TOOK ME A WEEK TO SET UP!"

"Claudia…I was trying to update the system! There was 8 years' worth of encrypted data that needed protecting and your system wasn't strong enough." Taking a deep breath, Laxus could hear her counting to ten rubbing the bridge of her nose, "That code…..THAT CODES JUST GIVEN ALMOST EVERY HACKER ACCESS TO ALL THE PRIVATE FUCKING INFORMATION ON THE SYSTEM! INCLUDING EVERYTHING ON US! I set this system up so it would update itself when needed!"

Everyone just started at the angry blonde, her hair was tied up into a high pony tail, her vest showed off her rather large chest, and Laxus noticed on how her shorts barely covered her arse, Artie was about to speak but Lucy held up her index finger, "No…. just no talking right now I'd rather you go do inventory or just go eat breakfast, it's going to take me almost all day to fix this mess"

Pete couldn't believe it, Lucy had just laid a verbal smack down on the older agent, and he could tell with the way she spoke, she had experience in giving lectures. It also made her look rather elegant, he looked over to the two men that had come with her, Gray was shivering and Laxus was holding his ears slightly, then to Myka who held a hint of proudness in her eyes.

Claudia sat down in Arties reclining chair and looked to the current agents of the warehouse before putting on a sweet face, "Pete, could you head down to the dub and grab some coffee and refreshments, Myka? I'm going to be stuck here most of the day so could you take Laxus and Gray to Jinksy's room so they can begin searching for him? I'm sorry I can't go with you…."

Laxus let out a small sigh and walked over placing a kiss on her lips, savouring the taste of her strawberry lip gloss, "I promised you I'd look for him and I'll do just that, we will come back here in 3 hours for lunch then head back out if we haven't found anything" he heard her sigh and nod then looked to her former Team mate, "Can you please get along with him? Just on this mission" the man walked up and knelt down in front of her "I'll do anything for you to forgive me, I promise we will find this guy little sis. An make the people pay for hurting him in the first place. Lets just hope Laxus nose is just as good as Natsu's" the lightening dragon slayer just grunted placing down the purple latex gloves next to the stellar mage.

"My nose is just fine Frosty" He looked over to Myka who gave a smile letting him know she was happy to help. Not a moment later the three left, while Lucy began typing away on the computer.

Artie just sat down arms crossed sulking watching on how Lucy managed to quickly pull up a strategy out of nowhere while Pete walked up and began massaging the tension out of her shoulders. "Claud? I want to thank you for last night um….would it be possible to?" she looked up and smiled "You want Loke to company you to the Dub? He can be a handful if a lot of women are there"

The grin on his face just said it all, and she knew what that look meant, "I'll tell Myks that you're checking out other women if you're not back here within 40 minutes, I have Horologium keeping a timer up."

Before she could take out Loke's key, a shower of star dust appeared right next to them making Artie jump out of his skin, "What the hell is that!" that made the two giggle, until Loke appeared and bowed kissing Lucy's hand, "My Love! I heard that my new friend here would like me to accompany him, I've come out on my own magic so this way it does not drain you too much if needed later." Rolling her eyes, but smiled, "thanks Loke, I don't mind Pete really enjoyed your company last night, Thank you for talking with him it's just a simple task on grabbing coffee." Loke nodded "And Coffee you shall receive, My love only deserves the best treatment!"

"Just go you Perve, before I tell Aries that you're cheating on her." He soon paled grabbing the males wrist, "Let's go!" and with that them two left.

She sighed sitting back, "That was Leo, one of my Celestial spirits before you ask gramps,"

Leena's BNB – South Dakota

Gray stood in the doorway of Jinksy bedroom, watching the woman cross her arms while Laxus was walking round trying to get a good scent off it, he could tell he was having slight trouble as Myka had explained that the man had been missing for 2 weeks. Natsu had once explained to the team that sometimes if the persons not been there for a while that the scent could disappear, if a Dragon slayer has been in contact with one person before and knew there Scent then if that person was close in the future they'd be able to recognise them.

Unfortunately for them though, they didn't know Steve Jinks, so this seemed like it was going to be like looking for a needle in a very large haystack, that was until the blonde dragon slayer walked to the bed and his eye's snapped open, "I've got it, most of his scent had already been long gone but I've managed it, Fullbuster did Lucy manage to show you a picture of him?" shaking his head he entered the room and looked around, it didn't have much too it, but he saw one photo on top of a set of mahogany draws, it was of Steve and Lucy when she had her red hair, although Gray didn't know that, "This him?" "Yeah Blondie still has that picture on her phone of the two Myka? Do you have a copy of this?"

"I don't have that one but I do have another picture of him, lets head into town and see if you can pick anything up I have a feeling that the longer he's out there, the worse condition is going to be when we find him" both men nodded and headed out of the B&B, Myka locked the door and began heading towards the car, "We won't be needing that, we're going to search this city on foot, my nose won't work so well in that thing."

Nodding, Myka had found out about the motion sickness that morning when driving the two down to the warehouse, Gray had laughed slightly but only to receive a shock not a moment later angering him. "this is going to be a long 3 hours…." Looking up into the sky, there was no clouds, indicating it would be a warm day, she took off her jacket rolling up her sleeves.

"if we run into trouble and I smell that the guy is a mage, you better get out of there, Blondie won't like it if you get hurt." An with that Laxus began walking down the road into town.

She was about to say something but Gray put a hand on her shoulder, "Don't mind him, that's his way of saying he'll protect you, he's right though None magical people don't stand a chance against mages, especially if they are Dark ones. It's better you be safe then to involve yourself in one of them battles, on the plus side I use Ice magic so if you get too warm I can cool you down." She gave a smile to him "Thanks Gray,"

Abandon building – outskirts South Dakota

The sounds of a metal door clanking could be heard in the darkness of a small room, Steve Jinks still had his hands tied with what looked like ordinary rope but as he tried to get free, he kept getting zapped.

Looking up, he saw the raven haired man walking towards him, "It seem like the care taker is back in South Dakota looking for you Agent Jinks." Steve stood up leaning against the wall for support on his slightly weak body, "you will not touch a single hair on Claudia's head!"

The man couldn't help but laugh at Steve's words, "Are you trying to threaten me? I don't think you are in any position to be throwing threats about Stevie, After all I'm the one who holds your life in the palm of my hand, and what a very little life that is, you see when I finally get my hands on the Caretaker I'm going to make you sit there, as I extract all them delicious powers of hers."

Launching his body forward, but only to be forced back into the wall in a rough shove, "I don't think so, human…. Oh wait, I shouldn't be saying that to a fellow mage…"

"Mage? What the hell are you talking about?" the man laughed slightly and looked to him, "Oh you didn't know? That are mages in the world that hold magical powers inside them? Didn't your mother ever tell you? Father or even when you saw your sister 8 years ago?"

The confusion on Steve's face was all the man needed to continue, "oh that's right, your mother and father are just humans, there not even your real parents Stevie…." "What the hell are you talking about? I don't …." "Of course you wouldn't understand, after all you was adopted as an infant, Your real parents were in Fiora, Raising your baby sister, they gave you up because they couldn't handle you."

"You Bastard! Your lying!" the man just took a file out of his jacket smirking, "I think you need some proof, although that link with the metronome should be all it takes to know that your connected with your sister already," Steve's sky blue eye's went wide, Claudia was his sister? "Yes, that's why the effects of the Metronome didn't disappear Stevie, it's just strengthened your bond instead, would you like to know your sisters real name?"

He opened the file, causing Steve's eye's to roll over the information, "Claudia…..Claudia's …. Lucy Heartfilia? Wait…..that's my DNA…. It…it's a match?"

"That's right, and no I'm not after your sisters wealth, like I said I'm after her magic." "I don't know anything about Claudia's magic! You harm her and I'll….." the man just grinned, licking his lips, "you can't do anything about it Stevie, she has the power of a god, and I can taste that power already! Once it's mine….its the end for the Heartfilia bloodline… And the entire world!" he arched his back and began laughing dropping the file to the floor, Steve dropped to his knees his eye's scanning over the file once again.

Lucy Heartfilia

Age: 17

Celestial Mage

Guild : Fairy tail

Mother Dead– Murdered

Father Dead – Murdered

American name – Claudia Donovan

Siblings – Steve Jinks

His mind wandered back to his best friend, his…little sister… "Does she know?"

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And that is the end of this chapter folks! Will Laxus catch Steve's scent?

Will Gray keep his clothing on?

Will Lucy fix the Grid in the Warehouse?

Will Loke come back before the time limit is up?

Curedream90! Over and out!