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CHAPTER 5: Their First Job Together
LUCY/POV
At first, I was quite shocked when Natsu went off on Selene like that. I mean, you can't blame him though, anyone could read the sadness and disappointment on his face. Selene played it off pretty cool like nothing happened. When she led Natsu outside, I couldn't help but turn my head to the side, raising my eye brow.
Natsu was wiping off his tears when Selene opened the door. I could not believe what I saw right in front of me.
This gigantic red dragon was sitting right in front of the guild! I almost screamed when I saw him. But Natsu beat me to it.
"Igneel!" He screamed as more tears fell from his eyes. He ran up to the dragon and hugged him right there on the spot.
I still stood there dumbfounded, but I was able to recollect my thoughts and follow the rest of the guild to the door. I put my hand on Selene shoulder and gave her a smile as she smiled back.
"It's a reunion." She announced as she glanced over to Wendy and Gajeel.
"It's your turn to meet your parents." Both of the remaining dragon slayers nodded their heads. When she chanted for their dragons, Grandine and Metallicana, they appeared just as Igneel did. This was the first time I ever say Gajeel cry like that or ever cry at all. I chuckled to myself as I watched the reunion between parent and child.
"Hey guys, I'm sorry but they must go back to the Dragon Realm. Keeping three dragons here at once it staring to effect my magic power." Selene called out to the three dragon slayers. who were wiping away their tears as they gave a final wave to their dragon parents. She gave a sigh as she took a simple swift motion with her hand signaling the dragons to go back.
One by one each of the dragons vanished into thin air. Leaving not a single trace behind. After Igneel vanished, Natsu ran up to Selene and gave her a big hug.
NATSU/POV
When Selene called out to us, I knew it was time to say good-bye. Igneel had told me about what he did when he was gone, and I told him about how I went searching for him when the dragons disappeared. All in all, I was just glad to see my dad again.
With a single wave, Selene let them go back their home. I was so thankful for Selene, I just had to give her a hug as thanks. haired girl and nearly pounced on her as I gave her a hug.
"Thanks Selene, I'm glad I could see my dad again and that I know he's okay." I whispered as I still tried to wiped the tears from my puffy eyes. Selene patted me on the back and smiled as I gave her a grin in return.
"Hey Luce! Gray and Erza too. Let's celebrate the reunion of the dragon slayers parents and the newcomer of Fairy Tail!" I shouted.
"Aye sir!" agreed Happy, as he followed me back in along with the other exceeds, Wendy and Gajeel. Plus the others at the guild.
NORMAL/POV
The guild partied all afternoon until evening as pretty much everybody, except for Lucy, Selene, Wendy, and Mira, passed out drunk on the floor.
"That was some party." Selene yawned, stretching her arms as she got up from her chair.
"Yep, it one of Fairy Tail's famous parties all right." Mira smiled as she began cleaning the bar and tables. "You guys should get home before it gets too late." Lucy pulled Natsu over her shoulder as Selene cradled Happy in her arms. "All right then, we'll take these guys home for you Mira." Lucy waved Mira one last good-bye as she and Selene walked through the doors of the guild.
"Lucy do you know where these guys live?" Selene asked, holding Happy in her arms and rocking him back and forth.
Lucy sweatdropped, "No not really. Whenever this happens, I usually just dump him on the floor at my place until morning."
Selene giggled at Lucy's remark. "So... how are we going to sleep?" She continued to walk aside Lucy.
"I guess I didn't really think of that, huh." Lucy scratched her head with her only available arm. "Hmm. I know! When we get home, I'll ask Virgo if she has any small beds in her world, she probably does since she has almost everything."
"Who's Virgo?"
"Oh, she's one of my spirits. A sign of the Zodiac to be exact."
"Oh okay."
The two girls continued to speak while walking back home to Lucy's apartment.
As they arrived to the front door of the building, they both entered the lobby. Lucy dragged Natsu up the stairs as Selene skipped up them with Happy still curled up in her arms. When they reached the door of Lucy's apartment, Lucy grabbed her room keys and unlocked the door. Lucy used her foot to push the door letting them pass to Lucy's apartment.
Lucy dragged Natsu in and threw him in a couch.
"Uh Lucy what are you doing?" Selene raised her brow as Lucy closed a drawer.
"Just getting some duct tape." Lucy peeled the end of the roll off and attached it to the arm rest. She ran around the couch, taping Natsu to it. "There, he won't crawl into my bed."
Selene stifled a little giggle as she placed Happy next to the pink dragon slayer.
"Now to get Virgo." Lucy pulled out one of her golden keys from her pouch. "Open! Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" Another chime of a clock and a flash later, a girl with short light pink hair wearing a maid uniform was bowing in front of Lucy.
"Hello princess, how may I help you today?"
"Hey Virgo." Lucy returned the greeting. "Do you have anything like a mattress or a bed for my dear cousin to sleep on for the night?"
Virgo nodded her head and suddenly a small bed with a yellow sheets and soft pillows, large enough for Selene, appeared beside Lucy's. She pushed Lucy's table and couch with Natsu and Happy on it to the side and alined the two beds so that they fited nicely with a gap in between.
"Is that all princess? You may punish me now." Virgo returned to Lucy, bowing in front of her once more.
"Thanks Virgo, that's all. You can go back now." Lucy waved her a final good-bye. Virgo disappeared leaving Lucy's room rearranged.
"Wow! That's one of your Zodiacs! She's so pretty. Even though that punishment thing is kinda wierd." Selene admired cheerfully as always.
"Yeah, guess it's time to hit the sack while we still can." Lucy yawned, stretching her arms.
"Oh crap! I forgot to buy some pajamas." Selene mentally facepalmed herself.
"I had a feeling you might." Lucy picked up a bag on the ground and handed it to Selene. When she opened the plastic bag, inside was a couple of t-shirts with graphics, pajama bottoms, some extra cute frilly skirts and tops, some boots, plus other necessities like socks.
"The girls and I picked them out for you while you were shopping." Lucy smiled, patting Selene on the back.
"That's a relief." Selene thanked her for being for her kindness and went to the bathroom to change.
While Selene was in the bathroom, Lucy grabbed a white tank top and a pair of pink fleece shorts. Selene finished her nightly routine. As she walked out of the bathroom, she was wearing a purple Fairy Tail graphic tee and a pair of light blue pajama bottoms. She took out the bow from her pony tail letting it freely unwind to her hips. Selene plopped into her new bed and curled up in the fluffy sheets. She soon fell soundly asleep.
LUCY/POV
I changed into my tank top and shorts in the bathroom as some thoughts entered my head.
'Who knew? Having a cousin from another world sounds fascinating. But I wonder why her mom, 'er I mean my aunt, would tell her to come live with me? Oh well, it's nice to have an actual relative that doesn't act like they're better than everybody else.'
When I finished dressing and left the bathroom, Selene was already asleep. She was so cute in her clothes we picked out for her. Meanwhile, Natsu was snoring so loud, I'm surprised that neither Happy nor Selene woke up from it. I guess I'll just have to deal with it when I'm in my bed. I took a seat on my bed, moving the pink sheets to the side. I stared at Selene for a bit. She was sleeping so peacefully, her breaths paced and calm. After a minute or so, I pulled myself into the warm covers of my bed as my eyes grew heavy and fell into a calm slumber.
NORMAL/POV
The morning sun rose again to announce a bright new sunny day in the town of Magnolia. The sunlight beamed through the window once again, bringing the end to the slumber both Lucy and Selene were in. Both Selene and Lucy rose from their beds and yawned almost simutaineously.
"Ahh what the hell? Why am I duct taped to the couch?"
"Looks like Natsu woke up." Lucy laughed to herself, seeing Natsu struggle from the stickiness of the tape.
"That's Lucy for ya', she tapes people to couches." Happy leaped from seat and started pulling on the duct tape covering Natsu. " Uh a little help here."
Selene chuckled to herself as well since it was funny for someone to be taped to the couch. When Lucy could finally catch her breath as she took some scissors from the same drawer the duct tape was in. She cut the tape and freed Natsu from the sticky position he was in. Natsu landed on the ground with a thud.
"Well jeez Luce. You didn't have to tie me down like you did." Natsu rubbed his bruised head.
"And if I didn't you would've crawled into my bed instead." Lucy explained in a harsh tone. "Well anyway it's time to get ready to go to the guild. Selene and I will only need a little time in the bathroom. And don't you dare try to open the door." She pushed Selene to the bathroom, stopping to get clothes along the way. She shut the bathroom door with her and Selene inside. They both dressed in what they wore yesterday and walked out to see Natsu and Happy waiting at the exit.
"Oi Luce, you two take forever. C'mon let's get to the guild already." Natsu waved as he opened the door.
"All right we're coming." Lucy followed Natsu out, holding onto Selene's hand and dragging her out the door.
The trio, plus Happy, were walking to the guild, chatting along the way.
"So Natsu, did you enjoy that reunion with Igneel?" Selene asked, looking up to Natsu.
"Hell yeah! After this entire time searching for the guy, I finally could see him again and it's all thanks to you." Natsu smiled back at Selene.
"What do you guys want to do at the guild today?" Lucy politely nudged into the conversation.
"Ooh I know Luce! Let's all go on a job together!" Natsu shouted, followed by Happy. "Aye sir!"
"That sounds great! I need to pay rent in a week's time too. Selene how does that sound?" Lucy cheerfully grinned at her little cousin.
"That sounds like fun!" Selene clapped her hands.
"Alright then it's settled." Natsu and Selene nodded as the four continued their way to the guild.
Five minutes later...
The group arrived at Fairy Tail's guild hall. Everybody was just as rowdy as the day yesterday, before they passed out drunk.
"Hey guys! Over here." Erza called to the trio and Happy. They walked over to the scarlet-haired girl with strawberry cake and beside her was the dark-haired stripper Natsu always had to pick a fight with.
"Hey guys! We're going to go an a job ok." Lucy told the two, pointing to the request board.
"Alright, have fun, plus don't you have to pay rent soon?" Gray said, only in his boxers.
"Gray your clothes?" Happy pointed his paws toward the shirtless dark hair.
"Crap! Where's my shirt?" Gray grunted as he went off to look for his clothes.
Selene giggled at Gray, trying to muffle the sound with her hand.
"Hey Selene, Natsu, help me choose a job." Lucy was already at the request board, finding a suitable and well paying job for Team Natsu. Selene was standing right behind Lucy after she was called over.
"Why don't we go on this one?" Selene pulled a paper clipped to the board and handed it to Lucy.
"Hmm, catching a couple of thieves eh? Sounds good, pays 140,000 jewel. What do you think Natsu?"
"Sure, why not. I could beat a couple of thieves up today." Natsu grinned, cracking his knuckles.
"Yay! My first job as a mage of Fairy Tail!" Selene shouted happily, nearly jumping with glee.
"Let's see it says here that a group of robbers stole some valuable items from a guy in the eastern side of Magnolia." Lucy read the description of the thieves. "There's five guys, they are mages from a small guild. They use molding, picto, requip, fire, and water magic. Doesn't seem too hard, but it does involve transportation." Lucy folded the paper carefully and put it into her pocket.
"Oh come on, damn it." Natsu started to feel sick just thinking about it.
"Uh what does Natsu have against transportation?" Selene tugged on Lucy's arm.
"Natsu gets motion sickness,but for some reason he's fine when Happy flies him."
Natsu glared at Lucy."Happy's not a mode of transportation. He's my friend."
"Aye!", agreed Happy.
Selene raised an eye brow, "How does that work?"
"Who knows, maybe it's a whole other story with Happy." Lucy bubbled.
"Wendy's a sky dragon slayer correct? Did you guys think of using Troia?"
"Yeah, but after a couple of uses, Natsu developed a Troia immunity."
"You know I can try to use a different kind of motion sickness spell. It's like a Troia, but you can use it over and over without building a resistance to it." Selene was cut off by Natsu.
"You really can do that? Thank Mavis I'm saved!" Natsu cheered once again.
"She'll cast the spell on you later, let's get to the train station first. After all, we have a job to go to." Lucy grabbed both Selene's and Natsu's hand and dragged them out the doors in a flash.
At the train station...
"Three tickets to east Magnolia please." Lucy requested to the ticket seller.
"Alright that'll be 3000 jewel." Lucy nodded and handed the clerk the money she owed. The tickets came out of the dispenser next to the booth. The group walked up to the side of the railroad.
"Oh jeez, just looking at the things moving makes me feel sick." Natsu tried to refrain from throwing up.
"He even gets sick looking at them? Well I guess I should do this now." Selene rubbed her hands together, getting ready to cast the spell.
Natsu nodded and stood in front of Selene.
She drew a circle in the air with her finger, making a light blue magic circle appear in front of Natsu. With her small hands side by side, she chanted briefly, "Matte Troia." The circle glowed and Natsu's pale face turned back to normal.
"Wow! Thanks Selene! It actually worked!" Natsu cheered as the train stopped in front of them.
"It's here. Let's go guys." Lucy waved over to her cousin and partner.
"Hehe, time to beat up some bad guys." Natsu balled his fist and threw it in the air as they boarded the locomotive.
After half an hour of riding the train, they finally arrived to their destination. As the three, plus Happy, got off the train, Lucy took out the job request she stuffed into her pocket. "Okay, we need to go to this address to meet the employer. 5707 Wood Berry Lane. And that should be a couple of blocks from here." Lucy read off of the paper, directing the team to this mansion that was large, but nowhere near as spacious as Lucy's childhood home.
They were greeted by this man in a suit and tie who had blonde locks, purple eyes, and was about as tall as Natsu.
"Hello, you must be the mages who accepted my job request. Please come on in." He turned around and led the trio, plus Happy, into the mansion. He sat down on a couch motioning the group to sit in the seats in front of him. He sighed, "I'm so glad you guys took this job. I am Crane Poly. As you have read, I want you to catch some bandits for me. There are five of them as entailed in the description of the thieves. They are from a small nearby guild that just opened and it's causing trouble for those who live pretty close. It's called have stolen some of my money, and I need it back so I can pay some bills I have stacked up in my office."
Lucy agreed, "No problem Mr. Poly. We can handle this. Where was the last place you saw those fools?"
"Hmm, they should be in the guild right now, it's five blocks away from here if you walk out and turn right."
"Thanks, we will return as soon as we can." The three waved a simple good-bye as they headed out to Landera.
They traveled five blocks down after they turned right from the exit of Poly's mansion, just as instructed.
There they saw a small building with a flag revealing the name 'Landera'. The building was no larger than an average pub with the distinct smell of booze in the air.
"Now to roughen up those bandits." Natsu balled up his fist as it set on fire. He ran up to the door and smashed it into the wall in the back of the guild.
"Who the hell are you?" A man with silver hair and tattered up britches stood up after Natsu broke the door down.
"We're here to take down the guys stealing from innocent townspeople." Natsu growled viciously.
"And we're not going back without you in chains!" Selene glared at the group of small time mages.
"Yea!" Lucy grinned.
"And how do you expect we're gonna be caught by a pipsqueak, idiot, blonde bimbo, and a blue cat?" Another well-built guy crossed his arms and smirked.
Without warning, Natsu jumped up and engulfed his body in flames. "Don't you dare call my friends anything, whether it be a pipsqueak or a bimbo. They'll still be stronger than you'll ever be!" Natsu pulled his hands back.
FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!
Natsu aimed at the guy who crossed his arms, the one who called Lucy a bimbo and Selene a pipsqueak. He crashed and the blow knocked back the other four members of the guild.
"Oh you're going to get it now! Earth make! Lance!" Streams of dirt flew through the air towards Selene, Natsu, and Lucy.
SKY DRAGON WIND BARRIER!
A dome of wind circulated around the team, turning the razor-sharp earth into nothing more than dust.
Lucy gave off her own smirk. She pulled out a golden key.
OPEN! GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL! TAURUS!
A giant cow, well bull, with a huge axe popped up in front of Lucy as she commanded. "Taurus, knock these jerks off their feet."
"Of course Lucy, and how 'bout you give me a s-moooo-ch with that nice body of yours."
"Now's not the time to be perverted! Hurry!"
Taurus swung his axe, striking the maker mage. He was knocked out in one blow.
Then two more of the groupies came up from behind their fallen teammate.
"Heh, this actually might be a challenge." boasted the fire mage.
"I agree." The water mage crossed his arms.
Natsu ran off to get the other two mages. "You got this."
"Lucy go help Natsu! I can handle this." Selene gave an evil-looking glare to the fire and water mage.
"Are you sure?" Lucy asked, stunned at her little cousin's remark.
"Trust me. Now go!" Lucy understood and ran to Natsu.
"That's an awful lot of talk for a little kid." The fire mage began.
"We're not going to go easy on you. I hope you know that." The water mage smirked.
"Heh, no need." Selene gave them another evil eye.
"Fire explosion!"
"Water geyser!"
A stream of fire and water was racing toward the little girl. When they clashed into Selene, an explosion erupted.
"Selene!" Lucy looked back to see her cousin being fired at simultaneously.
"Guess that child was all talk after all." The fire mage bellowed. "Pathetic."
Their conversation was interrupted by the girl's voice. "Not so fast!"
The surrounding water and fire soon disappeared to reveal Selene standing there unscaved, inhaling both of the elements through her mouth. She wiped her face with her sleeve.
"Thanks for the grub. Now it's my turn."
FIRE WATER DRAGON UNISON ROAR!
"What the hell?" Both of them shocked at the powerful little girl. Before they could move, the intense swirl of fire and water overwhelmed themselves. Both getting knocked out in a single shot. The blast was so powerful that it blew out half of the guild's building.
"And you were all talk yourself." Selene looked down at the two men passed out on the floor. Her bangs covered both of her eyes.
Lucy sighed in relief. 'Thank goodness.'
She continued towards Natsu, who was now up against the picto and requip mage.
"Requip! Fire Spear!" The armor of the flame colored hair guy's changed into a bright red suit and he was holding a long stick that had fire on the edges of it.
"Pictogram! Cannon!" chanted the mage holding a notebook as a large cannon from thin air.
"I hope you know we're the strongest two of our guild of five." Grinned the requip wizard.
"It ain't gonna matter cause I'm gonna kick both of your asses right away!" Natsu charged towards the two Landera members.
"Fire!" boasted the picto mage. A cannon ball was shot directly at Natsu who took the blow head on.
"Nice try but that ain't happening." Natsu was still charging at full speed, unharmed from the measly cannon fire. His hands indulged in flames once again.
FIRE DRAGON WING ATTACK!
The fire was shaped into a pair of wings and it slashed through the both of the wizards from Landera. The picto mage was knocked out, but the requip mage was able to sustain some ground after Natsu's furious attack.
"Damn he's strong, who the hell is this guy?" He whispered to himself.
"Fire Edge!" He swung the spear-like stick at Natsu's head.
Unfortunately, Natsu caught it with his bare hand. "Really? That's the best you can do?" Natsu punched the requip mage in the face and it knocked him on his behind.
"That insignia..." The requip mage's eyes opened in fear.
"Yeah that's right, we're Fairy Tail." With one last sucker punch to the face, the requip mage was knocked out cold.
"Humph, that was easy." Natsu brushed off the dirt off his clothes as Selene walked up to Natsu.
"Yeah and it was fun too." Selene smiled.
"Selene got rid of two of them in one shot!" Lucy was happy that Selene could battle two guys at once.
"Woah. Nice one!" Natsu gave Selene a fist bump.
"Okay then! Let's tie up the guys and take 'em to ." Lucy pulled out a magic dispelling rope and tied up the five member of Landera.
When the group was ready to leave, Happy made a statement, "Uh guys, don't you think you went overboard?"
They all turned around to see the tattered building that was now in bits and pieces with a giant hole on one side.
Natsu gave Happy a reassuring smile. "Oh well, we'll let Gramps deal with that."