Chapter Fourteen.
I woke up and the sun had just risen, meaning it was about four.
Does Laxus usually wake up this early, if so, I hate this spell. If not, then what the hell? Since I'm up I may as well go practise.
I made my way down the stairs and out the door, and to the same boulder I had chosen yesterday.
My magic reserves were completely restored, even though it had been only a few hours. I decided to try watching my hand, instead of closing my eyes. It was harder to concentrate on pulling my magic to my hands, but easier to see how much lightning I was creating, and it honestly wasn't much.
How did I create the singe marks on the table and the ceiling by accident if I can't create anything to even give someone a small shock, let alone hurt them?
How? Dammit, how!? I hear a crack larger than all the others. I look around and see a small scorch mark on the ground about two feet in front of me.
"You need to do it with out getting annoyed or frustrated. There isn't any point if you can't do it yourself." I whirl around and see Laxus leaning against a tree about twenty feet away.
"What are you talking about? I just created lightning, I thought that was the point."
"If you do it because you're angry, you aren't controlling it, you're just lashing out."
"Fine, I'll try again when I'm not annoyed, but, seriously, you wake up at ungodly hours." I say, glaring at Laxus.
He held up his hands in an 'I'm innocent' motion, "I'm never up this early, normally I'm out 'til at least eleven."
"Oh, I wish. I normally only get to sleep until Natsu sneaks in my bed." I begin sliding off my boulder and walking back the house.
"He sneaks into your bed? Is that everyday, or every once in a while?" Laxus pushes off the tree and walks with me.
"Normally a few time's a week. But, it's almost never that I go home and there isn't at least one person there."
"Person? I thought it was just members of your team."
"No, normally it's just my team, but Cana, Juvia, Mira, Wendy, Levy, Gajeel, Jet and Droy, sometimes, the last three are only if Levy's already there. Sometimes Gajeel will show up with Wendy, but not often. If Macau and Wakaba weren't in their mid-thirties when I first started at the guild then they might have, too. I don't even want to think about the other guilds if they ever found out where I lived." I had a shiver go up my spine at the thought. If Blue Pegasus knew that would be horrible.
We were going up the stairs inside the house when Laxus turned and smirked at me. That particular smirk troubled me.
"You go on for a bath. We'll be leaving for the guild in about two hours."
"Okay, thanks."
"Just use whatever you can find, you can get your stuff later."
I just nodded my head and went in the bathroom. It was amazing. The same bright pine, the same ceramic, the same deep brown for the towels. The bathtub was huge. Honestly, and I thought I couldn't love his house more.
I don't know how long I spent in the bath but when I came out I felt wonderful. I went back to the room I was staying in, and found fairly normal clothes of Evergreen's to wear. I slowly made my way downstairs and found Laxus in the kitchen. He had a bowl of cereal in front of him.
"Freid's shampoo, Ever's clothes and perfume, and Bix's body wash. Gotta say it makes and interesting scent mixed with what little of yours is left."
"Just how much time do they spend here?"
"Alot. Freid is the best cook of all of us so I normally have simple to make or no-need-to-cook foods around unless he's here." He waved his hand around to tell me to look for something to eat.
"I see, what about Evergreen and Bixlow? Do they normally do anything to help out here?" I find some chocolate chip rice crackers and go to sit across from Laxus.
"They normally help me train. It's almost impossible to get them in the same room, without me or Freid, and not start a fight with eachother. So normally, it's all of us just sitting, eating or training while we're here."
"Sounds kind of similar to my team. Natsu and Gray forever fighting, Erza trying to get them to stop over and over again, and me, just there and enjoying the times we have together. That is until they destroy something in my apartment." I sigh and I hear Laxus chuckle.
"We should start heading to the guild. Your team has probably shown up at your apartment and realized you're not there and are now going to the guild in a panic to find you."
Hello muses, since I've gotten a few reviews about this, Freid's name was only spelt as 'Freed' in the english version of the anime, of which I haven't watched since, like, episode 3 or somewhere in there. His name was initially spelt as 'Fried' in the early chapters of the manga, but I didn't want to use that spelling since in the english language that's like fried chicken, which is why the anime changed the spelling to 'Freed'. The spelling I'm using is from the later manga chapters where it is now spelt as 'Freid'.
Now that that's cleared up, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, though it's a bit shorter than I wanted, and it really wasn't all that exciting, but it got me writing again, so I'll see you all soon, review and send me inspiration when you've got the chance.