HELLO EVERYBODY! :D THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME FEEDBACK AND FOLLOWS/FAVES 3 Here is yet another chapter of Wishes~ You guys deserve it! :') So without further ado, I present chapter 7: Trouble Begins!
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"Everyone!" Lucy yelled as she burst into the guild doors, smiling. "I'm back!"
Fireball walked slowly behind Lucy. He had eaten too much at the restaurant and he felt like exploding. (See what I did there? Fireball… felt like exploding. ;D)
Lucy looked around. Why had no one welcomed her? She looked over at the cheering crowd at the far left corner of the room.
"What's happening?" Fireball asked, trudging next to Lucy.
"Let's find out." Lucy said as she walked over to the crowd. As she got closer she saw that the crowd was surrounding two people: a rose-haired boy and a golden-haired girl. Natsu and Ashley! Lucy thought. She walked even closer, but she couldn't get close enough to see what they were doing. Lucy jumped at the back of the crowd, trying to get a glimpse. All she was able to see was that the Natsu and Ashley's heads were really close together. Are they kissing? Lucy gasped at her own thought. Maybe Mira and Levy had already worked their matchmaking devilry on them.
Lucy felt her chest ache. What's happening? Lucy put a hand on her chest and stumbled back from the crowd.
Fireball who was still slowly walking over to the crowd saw Lucy stumble backwards and rushed over to her. He grabbed her arm to steady her. "Are you okay?"
Lucy looked up at Fireball and gave him a small smile. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry."
Fireball let go of her arm and gave her a look, not believing her. But Lucy continued to smile at him, so the matter was forgotten.
"So what are they doing?" Fireball asked.
"I don't know. I'm not tall enough to see them from back here. All I know is that they're really close together." Lucy felt her chest ache when she said the last part.
Suddenly, the crowd erupted into louder cheers to the sound of a table breaking. Then Lucy saw people giving out money and people taking money meaning that they were betting. As the crowd started to disperse, Lucy saw Ashley helping Natsu up from the ground and the broken table.
"That was great!" Lucy heard someone say.
"I knew Lucy would win." Someone else said.
"Too bad the table broke." Another voice chimed in.
"Yeah, but it was a good arm-wrestling match." Another said.
Oh! It was an arm-wrestling match! Lucy sighed with relief, the ache in her chest subsiding.
"You. Like. Him."
Lucy snapped to attention. She jerked her head to face the person who could say such a thing, which hurt her neck a little but that didn't matter. "TWINKLE!" She shouted, earning the stares of the other guild members.
Twinkle gave her a smug look and started to giggle. Mira and Levy had hawk hearing when it came to gossip and Lucy's love life so they heard what Twinkle had said and rushed over.
"Now, who is this cutie?" Mira leaned over to look at Twinkle closely. A group of perverted men behind her got nosebleeds and had hearts for eyes.
"I'm Twinkle!" Twinkle replied with a wide smile. "I'm a celestial spirit."
"You're such a cute celestial spirit!" Mira gave her a warm smile. "So what powers do you have?"
"I can grant wishes." Twinkle replied with a sparkle in her right eye. Every guild members' head turned at the amazing power Twinkle had.
There was silence for a while, but then a voice spoke up. "Can I wish for something?" The room burst into talk as they all the guild members talked about wishes. Suddenly, as if on cue, they all stood up at the same time and charged towards Twinkle to get their wish granted.
"Twinkle!"
"Twinkle, grant my wish!"
"I wish that there would finally be a job request that only I can do!" Nab yelled.
"I wish that I was a famous singer!" Gajeel roared.
"I wish I could try eating the tastiest flame in the world!" Natsu shouted.
"I wish I'd find true love!" Levy wished loudly. As she said that, her gaze met Gajeel's, so she blushed and looked away.
"I wish I could have the best strawberry cake in the world!" Erza yelled and started drooling a bit.
Twinkle was overwhelmed by all people surrounding her. They looked like hungry wolves, looking at their prey. She got scared and started to cry.
"Eh?!" Everybody took a step back at the sound of Twinkle crying and they all finally shut up.
"Natsu, look what you did! You made her cry!" Gray shot a look at Natsu.
"What are you talking about? I didn't make her cry! She probably started crying 'because she saw your face!" Natsu shot back. The two were about to collide into a fight but Erza stepped in between them with a dark aura emanating from her. Natsu and Gray stopped and started mumbling unhappily.
Mira walked up to Twinkle. "Aw, sweetie, don't cry. You don't have to grant wishes for all these meanies." Mira turned to face the other guild members with a deadly look on her face, making them all take another step back.
Twinkle sniffled. "Okay."
"Could you grant my wish though?" Mira smiled innocently at Twinkle. The other guild members erupted in protest and started surrounding poor Twinkle again.
Twinkle, desperate to get the attention off of her, tried to think of an excuse. "Stop! Stop! Stop! I can't grant your wishes!"
Everyone looked at her in disbelief. "Why not?"
"Because-" Twinkle looked over at Lucy. Lucy's eyes widened, she knew what Twinkle was about to say, so she starting shaking her head and waving her hands in dissent. Twinkle ignored her and finished, "Lucy's in charge of what wishes I grant!" She pointed a finger at Lucy, whose face had paled.
"Lucy!" The crowd directed their attention to the sweet, golden-haired mage who was praying that she wouldn't get hurt by the mob.
"Lucy! I was your friend since you arrived at the guild! Let me have a wish!"
"Lucy! I was the one who's nicest to you! I should get a wish!"
"Lucy! I'm one of your best friends, so can I have a wish?!"
"Lucy!"
"Lucy!"
"Lucy!"
Lucy's eye twitched at the annoying crowd. "OKAY!" She blurted from the peer pressure. "You guys can have your wishes! Just leave me alone!"
Lucy saw Twinkle flinch from the corner of her eye and Lucy felt a wave of guilt take over as the menacing crowd stampeded at the little celestial spirit.
After a few hours of wish granting, Twinkle had passed out and disappeared back into the spirit world. Lucy sighed, relieved that Twinkle wouldn't have to grant anymore wishes and would finally have a break.
Some guild members were happily enjoying their wishes, while others were complaining that Twinkle disappeared before they got to wish. Lucy felt very irritated. Nobody had thanked her for letting them use her limited wishes and most importantly, not a single person thanked Twinkle for using up her magic power to grant their wish.
A couple of inconsiderate idiots had already come up to Lucy to try to get Twinkle to appear and grant their wishes. All Lucy had to say to them was a simple "no" before she would stalk over to a different chair and sit down, extremely ticked off at her guild members. Then Lucy saw another inconsiderate fool run up to her.
"Lucy!" Natsu said frantically. "Where's Twinkle?"
"She's resting in the spirit world." Lucy replied, trying to control her anger.
"But she still has to grant my wish!" Natsu whined.
"Natsu, she's exhausted. She can't grant anymore wishes for now." Lucy said. She was getting a little too annoyed.
"Can you call her out for one more wish?" Natsu begged.
"No, Natsu. I can't. Her magic is depleted and I feel so bad for her now, because she had to grant wishes for twenty guild members who don't even care about her condition. So, no, and leave me alone." Lucy stormed out of the guild, angry at Natsu and at everyone else who didn't even bother to thank Twinkle. All they wanted was their wish; they didn't care about Twinkle at all. Poor Twinkle.
Of course, Lucy knew that not all the guild members were like that. Mira, Levy, Erza, Fireball, and Ashley didn't wish for anything, not because Twinkle passed out, but because they felt so bad for the little spirit.
Even though Lucy left the guild for that day, she didn't feel like going home yet. She knew her house was the place that Natsu, Fireball and Ashley would go look for her. So instead of walking home, she decided to watch the sunset.
She went to a small hill that she would usually go to watch the sunset and sat down on the soft grass. She sighed. It was so beautiful. The sky was a light orange and it slowly went to becoming a darker orange, to a pink, to light purple, and then to dark blue.
Lucy Heartfilia…
Lucy gasped and snapped out of the sunset's trance. Did she just hear her name? She listened for any voices or any sounds, but she heard nothing and continued to watch the sunset.
She has the power to grant wishes…
Lucy looked around. There was no one in sight, so why did she keep hearing voices? Had she gone crazy?
We want wishes…
Lucy gasped again as she heard a sound from behind her. It was the sound of footsteps. She turned around quickly and pulled out her whip. She screamed when she saw a dark figure standing in front of her. He raised a hand and bubbles started to come out of it. Lucy used her whip to pop all the bubbles – except one. It had flown behind and curved around to hit the back of her head. She felt herself lose consciousness upon impact. Sleep magic! She thought. She stumbled forward, her vision blurring.
"Someone…" She whispered as she fell to the ground, her vision fading to black. "Save me."
Dun dun dun! Trouble is beginning! I bet all of you are wondering who's going to save her. I'm pretty sure there's at least two possibilities right now. Hehe... ANYWAYS, I hope you readers enjoyed this chapter! I'm probably going to update again tomorrow, if not then probably the next day. :P Oh and sorry there's not much Nalu/Edo-Nalu and that I'm barely doing anything about Lucy Ashley. I'll be incorporating more of that stuff next chapter! :) Remember to review~ I'd love to know what all of you are thinking about the story so far! And thank you for all those that have already reviewed, you guys make me feel like writing even more! :D