Chapter Twenty-Four
Master just sat in his seat not moving.
"What about, Levy? You know that it is mandatory for her to be here in two days. Can it not wait?"
"This is no time to be acting all sage-like!" Levy shouted as she banged her hands against the wooden counters in front her, both her voice and the hit echoing throughout the quiet guild. "I found out something about Lucy's mother, and it could possibly affect Lucy herself!"
"What do you mean you found out something about my mother?"
Levy spun around so fast I thought she was going to fall. "Lu, you're here."
"What did you find out, Levy?" My voice was quiet, low, demanding. It almost didn't recognize it as my own. The voice itself almost scared me.
"The last time you were here, when you told us that you now have lightning magic along with your celestial magic, I've been in the library constantly, trying to find anything on mages being able to use both holder and caster magic. I found nothing after days of searching, but then yesterday I found a book that mentioned a family that could. I searched for anything about families that had a rare ability to be able to use both kinds of magic.
However, only one could. Their names were the Burnhearts. This is the only family in history that has ever been able to. Apparently this ability was so rare, even in the family, that it only happened every few generations. However, the last few generations at least one person had the ability. And the strongest person in the history of the family was a young girl by name of Layla Burnheart." There was a collection of gasps from the people who knew my mothers name, myself included.
Levy didn't pause in her speech, "According to the books I found, she was so powerful that she had mastered several forms of lost magic, including dragon slaying magic. She had also mastered several forms of holder magic, including celestial magic, which wasn't so rare back then. It turns out that you, Lucy, along with Yukino of Sabertooth, and Angel of the Oracion Seis are the last Celestial mages, so it is now considered a lost magic."
"Wait!" Levy looked annoyed at the interruption from Natsu, but let him speak, "What about mine and Lucy's first job together, that Duke, he had the same magic?"
"Duke Everloo died three years ago while we were on Tenrou. But, back to your mother-"
"Levy, hold on." My voice quietly carries to her, and she looks less annoyed at my interruption, "What makes you so sure that this Layla Burnheart is my mother and not just someone who shares her first name?"
"I'll get to that in a second, Lu. Layla Burnheart, because of her extreme power, was targeted so that she could be used. From a young age, even before her family knew that she had the ability, people targeted her and her family for the chance to find it. The attacks only got worse once it was revealed that she was the one who had the ability, since the attackers no longer had to hold back so that they didn't accidentally kill the ability-user. Layla had to forever be watching as her family and protectors died.
About 30 years ago the last of her family died. After that Layla ran from guild to guild. Whether it be assassins guild, merchants guild, dark guild, or mage guild. There's speculation that she even came here once. About five years later she completely disappeared. No words or sightings, until ten years later in X776 she was discovered to be married to one of the wealthiest men in Fiore, Jude Heartphelia." Once again there was a collection of gasps, only from more than just a select few. All recognized the name of the man who hired a guild to attack us.
"You're sure?" I asked, slightly shaken.
"Completely. And from what I could gather, the world assumed, and still does, that you aren't Layla's child. I think your parents knew of the danger that you would be in if it was ever revealed that you are the last of the Burnheart family, the last possible person who could ever have the ability to use both holder and caster magic. Since your mother already experienced the fear of losing her family because of the ability, they decided that, if she were ever discovered to be alive, it would be best that to the world she had no blood relation to you. You were the daughter of Jude Heartphelia and a woman who passed away giving birth to you.
After that, all it says is that Layla Heartphelia died on July 7th year X777. It was unknown the cause, or what happened to the people who were after her all that time after they had discovered her."
I am so sorry, muses! I hadn't realised how long it had been since I last updated until I looked a couple of days ago. I just haven't been feeling all that motivated to write recently so I'm also really sorry that this chapter is so short. I was going to try and write more for this chapter before I updated but I'm going to a comic expo this weekend and I won't get too much of a chance over the next little bit because I've got some stuff going on and it's already been a month so I thought I should at least give you something.
I'll try and be back as soon as possible, but until then tell me what you liked, didn't like, and anything else.