Chapter 5
"Enjoy your meal." Lucy bowed before standing behind her employers with a brand new uniform.
Natsu turned to glare at the confident blonde, questioning himself how his great plan had gone wrong. He just could not believe how she could be wearing a completely-not-ruined uniform when he made sure his new muse, Lisanna had destroyed her uniform with many huge holes.
Sticking a tongue out and mouthing 'Sucker', Lucy had a smug smirk on her face as she thanked the Gods for sending Mira as her guardian angel here.
2 Hours Earlier
"Hey! What brings you here, Lucy?" Mira greeted as Lucy smiled at her nervously.
"A-Ano… I was thinking if I could get a new uniform…"
"But you are too scared to ask Erza, right?" Mira hit the bull's eye.
"Y-Yeah…" Lucy nodded meekly with a blush.
"Leave it to me!" Mira patted herself on the chest as she giggled.
"Huh, are you sure, Mira-san?"
"Of course, both me and Erza are cosplay buddies after all!" Mira stated as though it was a normal thing.
"Ah, thanks a lot Mira-san! I will wait for you here then!"
Present
Lucy still shuddered at thought of the stoic and strict Erza cosplaying. Returning from her own world, she stood in attention, waiting for the four men who were taking their own sweet time to finish their meal.
'What a bunch of pussies.' Lucy rolled her eyes, which didn't go unnoticed by a certain playboy.
"I am done." The said playboy wiped his mouth before standing up from his seat.
"Have a nice day, Loke-sama." The maids including the unwilling Lucy greeted as the said man walked out of the dining hall.
Lucy hummed as she walked alone in the hallway with a basket of wet and clean clothes of the people who gives her salary towards the rooftop to hang. However, her peaceful trip was interrupted when someone pushed her to the floor. Looking up while wincing at the pain, Lucy glared at the person, Lisanna.
"Oops, sorry." Lisanna sarcastically apologised with a smirk.
"Nah, it's alright." Lucy replied with a smile as she picked up the scattered clothes.
"Argh!" Lucy screamed out in pain as her hand was stepped on.
"Sorry, I didn't see your hand there." Lisanna lied as she stepped even harder, causing Lucy to tear up.
"I-It's alright." Lucy forced out, not wanting to be stepped on again.
Thankfully, Lisanna and her gang left, but not without stepping on the clean clothes first and calling her names of course.
"Now, I have to wash them again… Stupid..." Lucy muttered as she picked up the clothes with a bruised hand.
Just as Lucy was about to pick up the last item, a pair of hands picked it up for her.
"J-Juvia?" All Juvia offered was a smile and the dirtied clothing.
"Thank you…" Lucy trembled.
"You're welcome, let Juvia help you re-wash the clothes." Juvia picked up the basket of clothes before Lucy could even reject.
"Juvia thinks Lisanna is very mean! Michelle and Judy too!" Juvia grumbled in anger.
"Aren't you with them, Juvia?" Lucy looked at the fair skinned woman beside her.
"At first Juvia was, but then Juvia realised that she can never fit in with them."
"Ah, I see. To be very honest, I thought you were as bitchy as them." Lucy stated truthfully.
"Yeah, Juvia could see that. Juvia too, thought Lucy and Levy were bad people, but after a few days, Juvia realised that Lucy and Levy are nice people!" Juvia grinned before continuing on washing.
"So… I heard that you like Gray-sama." Lucy gave a sly grin to a blushing Juvia.
"H-How did you find out Juvia's secret?" steam coming out from the woman's ears.
"It was pretty obvious!" Lucy laughed at Juvia's reaction.
"Noooooo…!" was all Juvia could say before fainting.
For the whole afternoon, the two of them giggled and laughed at each other's antics as a newfound friendship formed between both women. This, however, greatly angered a certain white-haired woman as a surge of jealousy formed in her heart.
"Juvia thinks Lucy should tell Erza-san." Juvia muttered as she wrapped Lucy's badly bruised hand with a bandage
"Nah, it's just a small matter. I don't see any need to tell Erza-san." Juvia looked at the positive blonde with admiration.
"Juvia thinks Lucy is a very nice person!"
"I think you are very nice too, Juvia!" both women laughed as they headed back to the kitchen hand in hand.
"What happened to your hand?" Loke grabbed Lucy's hand after she placed the plate of foie gras on the large dining table.
"I-It's nothing to worry about, Loke-sama." Lucy tried not to wince as she pulled away her bandaged hand.
All four of them looked at the blonde with questioning looks as she limped to stand beside her new friend, Juvia. Yet, another woman felt her blood boiling in anger as she saw her Loke-sama show this much concern to the injured blonde. Yes, she was none other than Michelle Lobster.
"Why did she get hurt?" Natsu paced around in his room, a worried look etched on his face.
'Wait, why am I even worrying about her? Ah, I know! It's because no one else can injure her, except me! Yes, that's it!' Natsu agreed, not noticing how misleading his thought is.
"Natsu-sama?" a knock could be heard.
"Come in, Lisanna." Natsu gave his permission, knowing fully well who the voice belongs to.
The door creaked to reveal a blushing Lisanna, who thought Natsu was asking her to spend the night with him again. Yes, you heard it right, Natsu Dragneel had asked her to spend the night with him once, and boy did she enjoy it.
"Take a seat." Natsu gestured to a seat opposite him.
"You don't have to be so formal, Natsu-sama. After all, we did have a night together." Lisanna winked as she touched Natsu's muscular arms.
"Don't think you can talk to me like that just because we had a night together, it was just merely a one night stand." Natsu swatted her hands away in irritation.
"I-I apologise, Natsu-sama." Lisanna bowed her head as tears formed in her eyes.
"Whatever, I called you here to find out what exactly happened to Lucy Heartfillia."
"Lucy burnt her hand earlier in the afternoon." Lisanna almost growled at the mention of that very woman she hates.
"Okay, you may go now." Natsu sighed in relief before sending the woman he found irritating out of his room.
Closing the door to her beloved man's room, the hurt in Lisanna's heart soon turned into hatred and anger for Lucy. Swearing to make her life much for difficult, Lisanna walked back to her room, concocting all her plans to make Natsu hate Lucy Heartfillia for the rest of his life.
"No way!" Levy exclaimed as she heard about the bad ordeal Lucy had earlier.
"Juvia had the same expression as Levy too! But Juvia saw it with her own eyes."
"I never knew the three of them were that mean! You should tell Erza-san!" Levy suggested with Juvia nodding vigorously.
"You both are just overreacting! Maybe she really didn't see my hand?" Lucy offered.
"We are totally not overreacting! This is really too much!"
"Juvia thinks so too."
"Argh, whatever! So Levy, how was your day?" Lucy changed the topic professionally.
"Well, it was great! All alone in the library! Until Gajeel-sama talked to me, that is." Levy brooded.
Lucy choked on her own breath; Juvia spat out her drink like a water fountain.
"He what?!" Lucy demanded.
"Talked to me." Levy stated with no interest.
"Juvia is wondering what Gajeel-sama did other than talking?"
"Well, he practically kept disturbing my precious date with books!" Levy complained.
"Do you think maybe he likes you or something, Levy?"
"Juvia thinks Gajeel-sama really likes her though."
"I doubt it, he is known for breaking woman's heart. So maybe he is finding his next victim, which is me. But it's alright, I don't plan to pay any attention to him!" Levy said all too cheerfully.
"But I think she has already fallen for him." Lucy whispered softly to Juvia.
"Juvia thinks so too."
"What are you both talking about?" Levy asked innocently.
"N-Nothing!" both of them replied in perfect unison, making Levy look at them suspiciously for a moment before shrugging it off.
On a train to Magnolia
"I wonder how Natsu-niisan and the others are doing, don't you too, Charle?" a young girl at the young age of 12 asked the cat lying on her lap.
A/N : Woooot! I apologise for the late update, this was already done weeks ago, but couldn't fork out time to post it due to school :(
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