A/N: Um, so Guest wanted me to describe the characters, but how so? Physical descriptions? Costumes?

Lots of you wanted me to make the chapters longer, but if I do it'll take me literally forever to update, so I am very sorry. I tried to stick to a longer chapter size for Faith, Trust, and Happy Dust, and it just wasn't working out. So the chapters will probably stay this size, but I hope to update more often.

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"Lucy," Levy said delicately, laying a phone in front of her, "please tell me you have an explanation for this."

Lucy blinked up at her best friend for a few seconds before glancing down at the screen of the cell phone and promptly choking on her soda.

Five minutes of coughing later, it was all she could do to stare at the video over and over again five minutes before she finally blurted, "I have to go."

"No. You don't have to go anywhere. You are going to sit here and explain to me how come Incandescence and Salamander, of all people, are wreaking havoc on the city because of you."

Lucy buried her face in her hands. "I'm an idiot."

"No, you're not, and you're going to explain to me right now what's going on because they are getting dangerously close to Sweet Dreams, and if my favorite candy shop gets destroyed, people are going to be answering for it." Levy folded her arms. "Lucy, what did you do?"

Lucy looked up into her best friend's eyes, and every single lie she'd prepared died on her lips. "I joined Salamander."

Levy paused for a second. "Say what?"

"Please don't make me say it twice."

"You… joined Salamander."

"Levy, I can explain."

"I thought you hated Salamander."

"I… I did. Or, I mean, I thought I did. I don't know. It's really complicated, okay?"

Levy regarded her best friend with an interested expression she usually reserved for a complicated math problem. "Lucy, have you been brainwashed?"

There was a pause.

"I don't feel brainwashed," she admitted.

Levy nodded, as if that solved everything. "So I guess that means I can finally tell you about my part-time job."

"I… You… What?"

But Levy never got to respond, mostly because it was right then and there that Salamander himself slammed straight through Lucy's window, sending shards of broken glass straight toward the two girls.

Good thing Lucy held the record for fastest superhuman transformation speed and had the foresight to dive on top of Levy before anyone could get seriously hurt.

"What the heck is wrong with you?!" she screeched at Natsu over the sound of the wailing house alarm. "You could've killed somebody!"

"Blame your idiot friend over there!" he shot back, spitting fire. "He's the one who flipping threw me through a window!"

Lucy opened her mouth to shoot back an angry retort, but then Natsu's eyes widened, and he dove to the side. A blinding flash of pure energy shot straight through the broken window, Sting's voice yelling, "C'MON OUT AND FIGHT ME, YOU DIRTY BRAINWASHER!"

"For the last time, I DIDN'T BRAINWASH ANYONE!" Natsu hollered back. "But if it's a fight you want… FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!"

A wave of flame blasted out the window, setting Lucy's curtains and ceiling on fire. Lucy shrieked an incomprehensible stream of angry words at him, hopping to her feet, but Natsu was already swinging out the burning window to face Sting.

"He's always like this," Levy muttered under her breath. "The insurance people are going to kill us."

Lucy stared at her best friend. "Wait, hold up, what? Since when…"

"Since I became his secretary," was the nonchalant reply. "Oh, and Lucy? You should probably duck."

Lucy would've spent five minutes screeching at her best friend for not telling her the aforementioned information sooner, except Levy was right. She ducked, and Sting went sailing over her head right through her bedroom wall.

Lucy stared openmouthed at the remains of what had been a perfectly good wall. "My dad is going to kill me when he gets home."

"Wendy?!" Natsu shouted. "You okay?"

To Lucy's eternal shock, a little girl popped out of the rubble. "I-I'm fine! Eeek!"

Sting's hand shot out, latching onto her ankle. "You're not going anywhere until – Lucy?!"

Natsu bounded in through the window. "Hey, Incantation or whatever your name is, I don't mind fighting you, but could you please leave Wendy out of it? Kid's gonna have a heart attack!"

Sting responded by stammering a string of incomprehensible sounds and pointing at Lucy, who awkwardly cleared her throat.

"Uh, so maybe I've got a little bit of explaining to do."