I've recently become obsessed with True Blood, I think I've wasted several full days watching it...
Lucy might have been in it for the reputation, but me? I didn't care about fame or fourtune, I just couldn't bare to see any child have to grow up without a parent. Nobody deserved that. So there I was, sitting in a carriage with a motion sick Natsu and Lucy chatting away.
"I need to find someplace to live once I Macau-san." Lucy told me.
"Oh, I guess I do too..." I realized.
"Really, maybe we could live together? It would be fun!" Lucy beamed, grabbing my hands.
"I guess that would be pretty cool, but," I pulled my hands back towards me, "I'm not sure how Ryo would feel..."
"Oh, that's right! Where is he anyway?" Lucy asked.
"Um, well I guess I.. forgot to tell him?" I gave her a nervous smile.
Suddenly the bumping and jumbling movements halted; the carriage had stopped.
"It stopped!" Natsu jumped up, miraculously cured of his ailment.
"We're there?" Lucy wondered.
"I guess so." I shrugged, opening the carriage doors.
"I'm sorry," our driver spoke up, "We can't go any further than this with the carriage."
The cold air hit me in a burst of ice and snow. I could no longer feel my fingertips, let alone move my face. I don't believe I'd ever been this cold in my life.
"What's going on?" Lucy panicked, "Even though we're up in the mountain, it's summertime! There shouldn't be a snowstorm like this! I-it's cold!"
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious..." I muttered, shivering.
I quit listening to Lucy's rampage and focused on our surroundings. Mountains loomed over us, but I couldn't make out much else through the storm; not even tell the time of day.
I turned, refocusing on Natsu and Lucy. For some reason Lucy was now inside a ginormous clock, I didn't even bother to question why.
"Speaking of that, what job did Macao come here for, she says." the clock relayed Lucy's message.
"Seriously?" I commented, crossing my arms and shivering.
"You came here without even knowing that?" Natsu added.
Both Natsu and I answered her in unison. "To subdue the monster 'Vulcan'."
"I want to go home, she says."
"Then go already." I shrugged (or, I guess, I tried to shrug. As it was pretty hard to move at all in this reezing climate), following Natsu.
"Macao!" Natsu called into the unforgiving storm.
"Macao!" I joined in, "Where are you?"
"Macao! Are you there? Were you done in by Vulcan?"
Something moved in the midst of the snowy mountains, I strained my eyes for a better look. A shadowy figure burst from the snow and bounded toward us. I wasn't given enough time to react, so soon, the beast was upon us.
The beast Vulcan was a mass of white fur with an ugly face stuck on it, nothing to be impressed by. It leapt right past Natsu, completely ignorant to him. I assumed he was going to go past me too, but I was wrong. Vulcan wrapped his big rough fingers around my waist and plucked me up from where I stood. With his other arm, I saw him grab Lucy too.
"Human women!" he whooped, running off with the two of us.
"Uh-hoho!" the monster Vulcan bounced around Lucy and I in big ape-ish circles.
"Hey, Kumiko, would you mind moving your foot?" Lucy huffed.
"Huh? No problem." I attempted to shift positions only succeeding in making the both of us even more uncomfortable.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." Lucy complained.
"Would you enjoy seeing me get ripped apart by a giant monkey?" I retorted, "I needed some time to think, how much longer does this thing last?"
I'd jinxed it; the clock poofed out of existence, leaving Lucy and I completely exposed.
"W-wait! Holorogium, don't disappear!" Lucy cried as Balkan loomed over us.
I couldn't leave Lucy like that, so I threw myself in front of her protectively. Vulcan's steamy breath was warm on my face, it made me want to gag, but I kept a straight face. What could I do? I knew my magic could overtake this thing easily, but they might also take out Lucy! And even if Lucy survived, I don't know how she'd react... it might scar her.
"Woohoo! I finally caught up with you," Natsu came in at full speed, "Where is Macao?"
Natsu slipped, tumbling into a wall, but he quickly recovered.
"Hey Monkey! Where's Macao?"
"Uho?" the beast reacted.
"That's right, where is he? He's a human man, got it?" I asked defiantly.
"A man?" Vulcan responded, confused.
"Where did you hide him!" Natsu accused.
"Uhoho!" Vulcan grinned.
"He understood!" Natsu followed Vulcan's motions, kneeling down by the edge of the cave, "Where?"
With a shove, Natsu fell from the cliff, down miles and miles of mountain and snow. Not even Natsu would be able to survive a fall like that.
"Natsu!" Lucy cried.
"Me no likes man," Vulcan turned to face Lucy and I, "Me likes woman!"
'No! he's not dead, is he? He's a great mage and all...!" Lucy was hysteric.
I placed my hand on her shoulder comfortingly. "All we can do right now is fight, we can look for him once we've defeated Vulcan."
"You're right."
Lucy and I returned to the problem at hand: the hyperactive giant monkey dancing around the cave singing about women.
"Women, women, you perverted monkey! What are you gonna do if you got Natsu hurt?" Lucy unhooked a set of keys from her belt, "Open the door to the golden bull palace, Taurus!"
A bull now stood in front of Lucy bearing an axe on his back.
"Mooooooooo!" he roared.
"Taurus, the most powerful stellar spirit in my contract, will be your opponent!" Lucy proclaimed.
"Lucy-san! You have nice boobs as always, moo-re amazing than ever!" the bull cooed.
"Oh yeah, he's a pervert as well." she sighed.
"And who's your friend!" he paused for a moment, staring at my chest, then he patted my back, "It's okay."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean!" I fumed.
"Uho! Don't take my women!" Vulcan steamed.
"Your women? That's a most unforgivable remark." Taurus said seriously.
"That's right, get him Taurus!" Lucy encouraged.
Maybe the bull is alright... I thought to myself.
"You should say 'my boobs' not my women!" Taurus corrected.
Or not.
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