Welcome to Thunder Lucy Week! What a great way to kick off my birthday by posting the first chapter in what will be an amazing week! I am excited to be writing about the Thunder x Lucy in this story and happy with the plot I have created. The only pairing I have decided on in this story is who Lucy will end up with, otherwise, we shall see where it takes us! Please review and let me know how I am doing or if you have suggestions - CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is welcome - Brit
Laxus sighed for what felt like the thousandth time since they had left Fairy Tail for a well-deserved vacation. They seemed to be running into issue after issue on their way to Bosco. First, the train had a mechanical issue delaying them by an hour, followed by their tickets being double booked when they went get on the plane so they had to wait for the next flight which didn't depart for five hours. At that point, the Thunder Legion had opted to go and sightsee in Crocus to waste time until they finally would be on their way. The four mages found themselves at a quaint bar to eat while drinking some beers to pass the time. They had worked hard the last year to build Magnolia up after the battle with Alvarez. None of the Fairy Tail mages had taken any job during that time and focused all their efforts into rebuilding what had been lost. Granted they were all being paid by the King of Crocus so they weren't all completely broke, plus with them going on so many S Class missions they had a fair amount in their savings accounts.
Soon enough they'd be in Bosco taking in the sights, sounds, and culture of Bickslow's home nation. They'd been there several times over the years, with Laxus staying with the Pradesh family while he was exiled. Bickslow had grabbed hold of him before he left Magnolia, informing him of a place to head to that would help him past all of his own insecurities. It was thanks to Arman, the patriarch Pradesh, that he was able to realize that his need to conquer Fairy Tail stemmed from everything his own father had put him through. He might have saved his life by implanting the lightning dragon lacrima into his head but that was the only good thing Ivan had ever done for him. Laxus wanted power, to be the most powerful, and what better way to do that than to take down Makarov's beloved guild. Who needed love, family, or friendship? Couldn't understand the power behind any of them until he had his ass handed to him by Gajeel and Natsu. Laxus couldn't comprehend everything his gramps had been trying to teach him until Arman had laid it out for him. He had a lot of time to reflect and now understood that his father's perceived ideas on what true power was were a farce.
Love. Family. Friendship. These three items were the pillar of strength, courage, and wisdom and when all six were combined nothing was impossible. No-one lived up to these virtues better than Team Natsu. His eyes were opened at Fantasia, were reinforced during Tenrou Island, and fortified after Tartaros. He learned that the most destructive three mages in all of Earthland had several things to teach him. Erza was one of the most socially awkward person that he knew, could be deterred at a moments notice by strawberry cake, was the fiercest warrior he had the privilege of knowing. Gray was as cold as they came (literally), had a brooding attitude that got on his nerves, but knew what true friendship was and how to utilize it. Natsu was brash and fearless, continuously destroying everything on sight during any mission, and had the ability to become stronger by focusing everything he held dear to him and powering up.
He, and his team, learned the most from the Light of Fairy Tail. Lucy forgave easily, always had a smile on her face, and loved with everything she had - worming her way into his heart and his team's lives. She was the one that welcomed him back with open arms and had helped his team to not be perceived as the enemy within the guild. Lucy befriended Gajeel, Juvia, the Thunder Legion, and the former Oracion Seis and managed to make everyone in the guild feel valuable, even when she herself didn't feel so. It was one of those things he had been working on with her, her self-doubt issues and feelings of worthlessness. It was a work in progress. After coming together to defeat Zeref, Achnologia, and restoring Earthland he was looking forward to just relaxing for a long ass time. He smirked as Evergreen smacked Bickslow with her fan.
Evergreen couldn't wait to spend some time away for the testosterone-induced males that were in her team. Bickslow's sisters had invited her for a spa day followed by shopping at some of Bosco's world-famous clothing stores. Elluris head office was in Pelerno and the one sister was a model of their fireproof clothing line, she was the solar dragon slayer after all. This trip was also perfectly timed since she had broken up with Elfman before they left. Everything seemed to be the same thing with Elfman, including sex which had become super vanilla, and she was just bored with it all. The split was mutual so she didn't have to worry about hurting his heart, but it hadn't made her feel any better.
She felt like she was broken and unlovable, she hid behind her bitchy facade so she didn't have to deal with her feelings. Hiding and bottling them all up was easier to do some days than working through them. Was it healthy, no, but it was how she had learned to deal with things and being around three emotionally constipated men didn't help in the slightest. She didn't have too many friends that were women either, aside from Lucy and Juvia, her life was fairly lonely. When she had met Bickslow's sisters the first, the immediate connection, it made her super elated. Evergreen always looked forward to going to Bosco now. The waters in the Grass Sea were soothing and were her favorite things to visit every time took a vacation there. The fairy mage rolled her eyes when Freed started spouting nonsense about visiting the library.
Freed was looking forward to catching up on some research he had been looking into. His focus point was celestial magic after Lucy had let him read the books at her house. He found her magic to be incredibly rare and powerful, but there was so much that was unknown about it. Even to the holder mage herself. Pelerno had one of the largest libraries on lost and rare magic and he was going to submerge himself in learning everything he could. That was his ideal vacation and once they each went their separate ways for a couple days would be utter peace. The rune mage shook his head when Evergreen threatened to turn Bickslow to stone.
Bicklsow dodged the crazed look in the fairy mage's eyes, knowing full well that if he took one more step over the edge he was traipsing along he'd be stone and more than likely left behind. They were visiting his fucking hometown so he figured it was in his best interest to quit while he was ahead. The seith mage was super pumped to be back home since it had been at least a year since he had been back, right before the had re-joined Fairy Tail. Had spent an extremely boring year at Blue Pegasus, the tri-men were not any sense of the word fun nor did they swing towards men. He was Boscan so it didn't bother him one way or another but it took a hell of a lot more effort to get any action, male or female. Even Laxus had had issues at that guild, and the slayer rarely didn't have someone on his arm . . . err arms?
His entire family wasn't going to home for this trip but he was looking forward to seeing his dad and Kaleb for sure. Who knows what other stragglers would pop in unannounced while he was there for the week. However, at this pace, they'd never fucking get there with all the damn complications in travel. Soon they'd be aboard the plane and only a few short hours away from the warm rays of the sun. Swimming in the calming waters of the Grass Sea was the first thing on his bucket list. He took a large gulp of beer and decided that things could only get better from here. He was returning home for a vacation with his team, what could go wrong?
"Let's head back. They should be getting close to getting their shit figured out. I'm tired of waiting." Laxus downed the remainder of his drink before sliding his chair back, bag slung over his shoulder and heading towards the door. He knew the other three would follow suit shortly so he wasn't worried about them. He just wanted to get into his seat and put his sound pods on to drown the noise out until they landed. The four of them walked in comfortable silence through the streets of whatever random city they were in.
"Hey did you see . . . Huh?" Bickslow looked around the corner of an alley. "Nevermind. Guess I'm seeing things."
"Stop masturbating so much and your vision wouldn't be fucked," Laxus smirked to his best friend.
"Fuck you Laxus. You and I both know there is no such thing as too much." Bickslow crossed his arms in front of him as a sly grin made its way onto his lips. "Is that why you had a hard time seeing the target on our mission last week boss man? Strokin your junk too much?" The seith mage cackled as he dodged the bolt of lightning that was aimed at his person.
"I really DO NOT need to hear about you idiots jerkin off," Evergreen whispered yelled. "You are my brothers and I'd rather only know as little as possible."
"I concur with Evergreen. Listening to the two of you share pleasure with women while on missions is more than enough," Freed added to Evergreen's cause.
"You're just jealous," Bickslow smiled while nudging Laxus' side, the blonde man's lips twitching upwards.
"You know we have nothing to be jealous about," Evergreen huffed while snapping her fan shut in annoyance. "Elfman and I had a great sex life before . . . well, you know. And Freed has been fucking Farron for at least two years now."
"Evergreen!"
"Wow, wow, wow. Say what?" Bickslow's startled look matched the lightning slayers. "How the fuck did we not know about this?" Freed was the color of Erza's hair, hiding his face in his hands while Evergreen rolled her eyes yet again.
"They hooked up before shit exploded on with Alvarez. Caught them out in the garden when I was out for a stroll one night," Evergreen's eyes shone with excitement at knowing something those two didn't. "Apparently Farron has created a scent cleansing soap so the dragon slayers in his family can't tell who he has ever been with. Thane has been teleporting the lovebirds back and forth every so often, and I have seen other teleport mages from White Sea too."
"Two whole years? Dude why didn't you just fucking tell us?" Bickslow asked, a bit hurt by the secrecy. "You know I've always thought you two looked good together, so there was really no need to hide is. Guess the truth is indu . . . indub . . . What the hell was that word Cosplayer used."
"Indubitable," Freed corrected before pointing out, "Means impossible to doubt and I believe Miss Lucy was referring to her contracts when she was conversing with you. Or trying too since you were too busy staring at her breasts." Laxus laughed when Evergreen thwacked Bickslow hard on the head for being a per.
"No judging here Freed," Laxus' brain finally started to function again. "As long as he doesn't break your heart I won't break his body."
"Sorry," whispered the green haired mage. "We just wanted it to be us for a while, and Evergreen had kept it quiet until now. It was sort of thrilling though. Meeting up at random points in the day or night across the continent."
"Wait day?" Laxus looked perplexed for a moment. "Is that where you disappeared to when you said you were helping Levy with a translation last week? The bookworm came back to the guild looking all pissed off for some random reason and I just assumed it was because she was having a bad day." Evergreen couldn't help but giggle as Freed's blush had come back tenfold and he nodded his head. "Whatever. Now that it's out in the open full disclosure, we don't need this to hinder us on missions. That goes for all four of us, no chances after Alvarez." The three mages nodded their heads in agreement. "Good. Now let's get our fucking vacation started!"