Disclaimer! I do not own Fairy Tail. I only own the story and one of the main characters.
CHAPTER 7: Training Starts Here
NORMAL/POV
"Yay, We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach!" Sang Selene as she pranced around in circles.
"Heh, Selene may be a strong person, but she's still a child at heart." Lucy smiled at the happy little girl.
The group of wizards and exceeds, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza, Selene, Wendy, Carla, and Happy, arrived at one of the famous beaches in Magnolia. With crystal blue waters and its soft white sand, the beach was a beautiful sight.
"Man, that other resort we stayed at before was way better than this." Natsu mumbled.
"We only went there last time because Loke gave us tickets remember? Plus, it's really expensive for our pockets." Gray explained to the mumbling Natsu.
"Anyways, people gather around. Okay today we'll have a relaxing day, sometimes it's better to have a nice vacation first before anything." Erza announced to the group of Fairy Tail wizards. "We have three months, so that should be plenty of time to train and what-not."
The group of mages cheered and went their separate ways. Lucy and Erza were sitting on a couple of beach blankets in their bikinis as they watched Wendy and Selene splash around in the cool shallow water in front of them. Happy was sitting next to Carla who seemed a bit annoyed at how persistent the blue cat was at offering her his fish. Natsu and Gray raced each other out into the ocean.
"I'm faster at swimming than you are, Gray." Natsu bragged as he flashed a toothy grin.
"Oh yeah? Bring it on!" challenged Gray as he stripped off his bathing shorts. "Without any clothes, their won't be any traction between me and the water."
The ice wizard sped off further into the ocean swimming as fast as he could.
"Hey no fair!" Natsu shouted as he readied his arms. His hands were indulged in flames once again. "Dragon freestyle!" Natsu swam towards Gray, using his fire magic as a boost.
"Oh no you don't! Ice Make! Ocean!" Gray chanted making the ocean water freeze into one big lump of ice.
Just before the ice could reach her and Wendy, Selene pulled Wendy to the shore.
"Oh now they've done it." Lucy facepalmed herself forgetting that going anywhere with the two idiots would cause them some sort of trouble.
"Nice one ice stripper!" Natsu insulted, shivering at the fact he was stuck in ice.
"That's Gray for ya." Happy said, staring at the giant ocean now frozen.
"No need to worry g-guys. I-I've got this." Natsu waved to the uninterested red-head and the blonde girl beside her.
FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!
Natsu lunged his flaming hand at the solid ice.
"I'm alot stronger now. You can't break through my ice as easily." Gray boasted, standing on top of the ice butt-naked.
Natsu punched at the ice even harder with his flaming punches as the ice started to crack.
"Uh oh."
With one final punch, Natsu smashed the ice into nothing more than large chunks.
"Crap! The chunks are going to hit the visitors here!" Erza proclaimed, changing her armor.
REQUIP! HEAVEN'S WHEEL!
Erza's black and red bikini turned into a dress made up of silver plates along with large wings.
"I guess our relaxing is going to have to wait." Lucy gave a small smirk as she pulled out a golden key.
OPEN! GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL! TAURUS!
The large perverted bull appeared in front of Lucy once again, ready to attack at the falling chunks of ice.
CIRCLE SWORD!
RAMPAGE!
The magical attacks shattered several of the falling pieces of ice.
Selene and Wendy aimed for the ones coming their way.
SKY DRAGON ROAR!
WATER DRAGON CRUSHING FANG!
THe two girls successfully broke the rest of the ice, leaving one last piece in the air, hovering over Natsu's head. He leaped up directly at the falling ice.
FIRE DRAGON FLAMING ELBOW!
With a swift move, the ice pulverized into nothing, making the big blue sky sparkle like glitter.
"That was a workout!" Selene stretched her arms.
"I did it!" Wendy cheered at her accomplishment.
"Damn it popsicle! If you didn't freeze the water, I would've beat you." Natsu shouted.
"It was on impulse alright? Now shut the hell up!" Gray's fore head butted against Natsu's.
"You two." A familiar voice stopped the childish bickering they had. It was Erza. "You are going to pay for this one way or the other. I can't have a single break without having to babysit you idiots!"
"W-we're sorry ma'am." Natsu and Gray cowerd in fear.
Erza gave the two morons a final glare as she waved to the rest of the group. "Okay guys, let's get to the hotel, since some pests made the beach a mess and unusable for the rest of the day."
Selene and Lucy looked at each other, both muffling a chuckle. Lucy grabbed her suitcase that had both of the girl's things in it. Wendy slipped her arms into her dragon scaled backpack. Natsu took his pack with Happy sitting on it. Gray just pulled his shirt back on. Erza repacked the beach items into her pile of suitcases she takes everywhere.
The group of mages and exceeds made their way to a nearby ordinary hotel.
"Hello." The kind receptionist greeted.
"Hi, we have a reservation for two rooms?" Erza requested politely as the receptionist handed her two room keys. The labels read ' Room 204 ' and ' Room 205'. Erza thanked the woman and motioned everybody to follow her.
The team walked down a hall and up a flight of stairs to reach their designated rooms.
The rooms 204 and 205 were right across the hall from each other.
"Okay, Lucy, Selene, Carla, and Wendy, you guys can take 204. While Natsu, Gray, Happy, and I take 205. We'll unpack our things and get settled before we go out and have some dinner." The girls nodded as they watched Erza shove the mischievous boys into the room in front of them.
Lucy took the key Erza handed to her and unlocked their hotel room door. Inside the room was three beds, neatly made with white fluffy sheets. There was also a small dining table, mini-kitchen (including a fridge that was oh so adorable), a lacrima screen, and a small bathroom.
Selene jumped straight into one of the beds, the one closest to the screen. "Oh man, this is so soft." She curled herself up in the blankets, turning herself into a blanket burrito.
Lucy giggled as she placed their suitcase on her bed and unzipped it. She pulled out two pairs of clothing, one for her and the other for Selene. "Let's get ready for dinner guys."
Wendy pulled out some clothes from her backpack as well as a small outfit for Carla.
One by one, each girl took a quick rinse in the shower to get rid of the salty residue of the ocean water and dressed for dinner. Just as the girls finished slipping their shoes on, there was a knock at the door.
It was Erza, "Hey guys, you done yet? The guys and I just finished."
"Coming!" Lucy unlocked and opened the door to see them waiting for the rest of the crew. Natsu wore what he always did with his scaly scarf, Gray had a white polo and khaki shorts, and Erza had her hair tied into a pony tail and a black and white dress that had frills at the bottom.
As the girls walked out, Lucy wore a green tank top with a short yellow skirt and boots, Wendy had her white dress with ruffles and red bows on it, and Selene was wearing a black frilly dress that ended in the middle of her thighs with purple knee-highs and black flats.
"So where are we going to eat? I'm starving." Natsu groaned.
"Um I know a restaurant that's close by, maybe we can go there? They're really famous for their magical cuisine. Plus an acquaintance of mine works there." Erza suggested. They all looked at each other and nodded as they walked out of the building.
Erza was taking them to a nice restaurant, that had delicious food and delectable strawberry cakes. The thought of the meal almost made Natsu walk into a pole because he was drooling and spacing out.
After walking down a few blocks, they reached a sign that read, 'Luna's Dine-In'.
"This is the place." Erza said, pushing the doors open.
"Oh hi Erza. You're in the area I see." A girl with short blonde hair and bright purple eyes in a long red dress greeted the pack of hungry mages.
"Nice to see ya again Luna." Smiled Erza. "A table for six please."
"Of course, right this way." Luna grabbed her notepad and led the group to a table. "So what would you like?" She handed menus out to each person.
"I'll have the strawberry cake."
"I'll take the fireball soup."
"Just some noodles please."
"Can I have the salad?"
"And we'll have the mini steaks."
Luna nodded as they returned the menus to her. "Your food will be ready soon."
"So what's the training plan?" Lucy questioned.
"Who knows? We'll just be working out to get stronger I guess." Natsu answered.
"Hmm, with three months it seems just like a little bit of time, but if we use it wisely, that's plenty of time." Erza muttered, her hand on her chin.
"But we've got to focus on our weaknesses, too." Gray smirked. "Especially that motion sickness of yours."
"Ah shut up popsicle! Plus Selene's got that taken care of. She knows a motion sickness spell that can be used over and over again without fail."
"Really? What's it called?" Wendy looked at Selene curiously.
Selene smiled, "It's called Matte Troia. I'll teach it to you later. I saw it in one of Grandine's books. It's very similar to the regular Troia as in effects and such, but it only works on dragon slayers."
"Sounds great." Wendy replied.
After several more minutes of chatting, Luna arrived at the table, balancing cups and plates in a tray.
"Here you go guys." She sang as she placed the orders on the table.
"Sweet! Chow time!" Cheered the starving pink haired dragon slayer.
Without a moment to waste, everybody dug into their food like they haven't eaten in decades.
"Man that food was good. I'm stuffed!" exclaimed Gray.
"I actually agree with ya." Natsu teased.
"Well I guess it's time to get back to the hotel." Erza said as she left some money on the tables to pay for the food.
They left the restaurant and made their way back to the hotel, but along the trip Lucy's key's glowed. Suddenly, Virgo appeared right in front of them.
"Virgo? What are you doing here?" Lucy asked.
"Princess we need your help. The Celestial world is in trouble." Virgo looked into Lucy's chocolate eyes.
Lucy gulped, "Take us there right away! We need to help." She looked back and saw the guys nodding in approval.
"As you wish princess. Thank You." Virgo bowed as the group vanished into thin air.
They reappeared in a place that looked like to be a part of space, with numerous stars and beautiful colors, there was no doubt about it, they were in the Celestial world.
However, to Lucy, there was nothing that seemed wrong in the world. Why would Virgo lie to her about something that made her worry.
"Surprise!" A bunch of voices startled the group of wizards.
"What the? Why would you guys make us come here when there was nothing wrong?"
"Sorry about that Lucy, but we needed you to come here some how." Lucy stared at the orange haired guy in the suit.
"Loke, why did you want us to come here?"
"We wanted to celebrate your return and the new member of Fairy Tail"
"Hold on." Selene stared at Loke. "Are you and them over there celestial spirits?"
"Yes indeed, you must be the new member and relative of Lucy's"
Selene hummed in reply.
"Well let me introduce you to the rest of the spirits shall we?" Loke invited, pointing to the other group.
Selene looked at Lucy for approval, she motioned to Selene that it was perfectly fine.
"Ok."
"Well let's start. I'm Leo the Lion, or you can call me Loke. The mermaid hugging the scorpion dude is Aquarius the water bearer..." Loke continued until there was nobody left to introduce.
"So now that that's over, let's party!" Cheered Taurus.
The group of mages gave in, one day of partying in the celestial world wouldn't hurt right? After celebrating the return of the Tenrou group and newest member of Fairy Tail, it was a total of twenty-four hours, a whole day.
"I forgot to tell you something princess." Virgo shook Lucy awake.
"The time between the two worlds are different."
"Oh so like one year here would be one day in the Earthlands?" Selene guessed.
"Actually no, it's the opposite. One day here, equals ... three months."
"What? That means we ran out of time for training! What are we going to do now?" Natsu grunted.
"Let's just go back and look to see how many days are left 'til the competition." Erza stated, trying to hide her disappointment.
They all hummed in agreement.
"Virgo can you take us back?" Lucy looked at the pink haired maid.
"Of course princess right away."
They reappeared back at the the sidewalk they first left from.
"Let's get back to the hotel right away." Erza started to run, followed by Gray and Natsu.
"Thanks Virgo, but next time, tell me the real reason instaed of making me worry."
They reach back to the hotel and ran up to their rooms.
"Crap! We've only got barely five days!" Natsu shouted.
"Then we won't have much time to train anymore." Gray said stating the obvious.
"Well then, might as well get started. After all, we have limited time." Selene chanted.
"Plus we can help you guys." A voice followed Selene's.
"J-Jellal? Meredy? Ultear?" Erza stuttered. "What are you-"
"Please Erza, let me explain. I was broken out by Ultear and Meredy. We came here to help you in the GMG's. All three of us are part of an independent guild called Crime Sorciere. We are not an official guild, but we aren't a dark one either, we destroy dark guilds for a living." The blue haired guy with a tatoo on his eye named Jellal continued. "Ultear here can help you make up for your lost time. She knows a spell that can permanently increase the amount of magic power you can use."
"Indeed, it will help you in the competition." Ultear stepped forward, holding a magic orb in her hand.
"Well I would like to thank you, but I don't think I need to undergo treatment. Anyone who wants to do it, it's fine by me." Erza granted.
Everyone but Erza and Selene stepped up.
"Selene you don't want to undergo treatment?" Lucy looked at her cousin.
"No need for me to do it, I've been training nonstop before I ever came here so yeah." Selene answered.
"I see." Smiled Lucy.
"Well then, let's start, but I must warn you that it's going to hurt. A lot." Ultear sent the orb to Natsu first.
A purple magic surrounded him, and he started to wince in pain.
"Stay strong Natsu, it will only last a little bit." Lucy patted his back.
The purple magic spread to Lucy, Wendy, and Gray.
"Jeez this hurts!" Screamed Lucy, laying on the floor in pain.
"Well she did warn you." Selene stared at the older cousin.
Lucy responded with whimpers of pain.
"Erza? Can I talk to you for a sec?" Jellal whispered to the red-head.
"Sure, what is it?" Erza walked to the other room with Jellal.
ERZA/POV
"I must tell you something important. It's about some portal to another dimension." Jellal quietly spoke.
"Another dimension?"
'What is he talking about? What dimension? The only one I know is Edolas, but that has been situated a while ago so it couldn't be it.'
"Yes, but unfortunately but I don't much about it. There's just been some really suspicious... shit going on. The GMG's are in Crocus right?"
I nodded softly.
"Look, there's something odd there that I sensed. Something not of this world. When you guys are there, would you do me the favor of investigating for me?"
"Sure, it sounds really important."
"Also, don't tell them about this until the time is right. I don't want Natsu to go on his own and do something really bad."
I giggled at his remark. "You do realize he can hear this right?"
"Wh-what? He can hear us?"
"Have you forgotten? He's got a really good ear and nose."
"Shit!" He cussed under his breath. "Do you think he heard all of it?"
"Probably not, he's still trying to get over the pain. Anyway, what kind of suspicion do you have about Crocus?"
"Like I said, it's something about a portal to another dimension. I just want you to look out for anything or anyone who's acting wierd."
"Got it."
We walked toward the door, ending our conversation.
"Oh and, uh, Erza?"
I turned around as I felt a sudden warmth on my cheek. My eyes widened in surprise as my cheeks flushed with pure red. I stared into Jellal's eyes for a second before he turned away with a blushing face, realizing what he had done.
"S-sorry." He apologized nervously and shyly.
"It's ok, really." I could feel my face get hotter as it continued to glow a shade so red, my face could compete with the color of my hair.
"We probably should go now back out now..." He pointed at the door.
When I turned my head, I noticed a little girl with long black hair staring at me and Jellal with our flustering red faces.
"Selene?"
She just stared at us in silence,but soon broke it with a giggle.
"You like each other don't you?" She asked.
"Uh... I don't know how to answer that question." I looked away.
"You're blushing. Same with Jellal."
I gave her an intense stare, one that would scare anyone.
Yet Selene wasn't affected by it. "You guys look so cute together. Don't worry I'll keep it a secret." She turned around to go back in and paused. "And the suspicion thingy too." She opened the door and walked in.
"At least she's going to keep it a secret." Jellal sighed as we both went back to the room the guys were in.
SELENE/POV
'Hmm a portal to a different dimension, and it's related to the location of the GMG's huh? Whatever it is, I just don't want to get caught in the middle of it.'