writing this chapter restored my hopes. I don't feel like I am digging my own Grave anymore. I am getting used to writing. I have plans for each of the characters in this chapter all of them have important parts even if they seem a bit ridiculous here. If the character was not even named in the chapter I- JK I still have a lot to write and many characters will take a part in this story. I feel like I got a chance and that my exposition is finally concluded with this chapter, but who knows the pillow is good with advise!
*Unknown*
Adeline walks in the throne room just like every morning giving her report of the situation.
"I placed enough spells so that she won't wake up in a week she could make her situation worse if she tries to do too much work. I think that one week will be enough for her to heal." She seemed unusually nervous she was playing with something on her hands. An engagement ring!
"I imagine you are also treating Becket along with Myra." For the look on her face I can tell she is.
"Please Master, let me heal him. I was trained to treat a whole battalion if needed."
"in that state he is as good as a dead man we all know he won't wake up after getting his brain fried, and if he does how knows if he can even walk again. We don't want to hurt you but you aren't doing yourself any good either." She looked at the ground her face turning red. I can't believe this sweet little Adeline has been angered. Good show I got today defiantly the best way to wake every morning. "I can make a deal with you. You can keep healing him for a month, but I you fail…"
*Mira*
I read the letter one more time absorbing all of the information on the black sheet of paper. I read the last 3 words again I love you. I felt tear on my eyes as hug hugged the paper to her chest nearly crying.
"Freed this is the sweetest thing I have ever read" he looked at me his cheeks red in embarrassment.
"It's not such a big deal." He looked at me again getting redder with each glance "I got nervous and had a few times the pen would shake in my hand." I looked at the love letter again the calligraphy was perfect.
"Aw Freed don't be so hard on yourself it's just perfect. I am so happy for you. I thought it was going to be another century for you to finally decide to confess"
"What if he says no? What will I do?" oh Freed
"Haven't you seen the way he looks at you? I am sure he likes you. It is the same way Gray used to look at Juvia. Remember how everyone thought he hated her, and the next day she had the ring?"
"I don't know what if-"
"What if he says yes" he looked back at me.
"OK tonight I will give him the letter"
*Lucy*
Gods I heard that whole conversation. Freed is going to confess to another guy tonight. I wonder who it might be. If Mira knows this man he probably is someone in the guild. I sit on the bar waiting for Natsu. He was currently fighting with Gray this was going to take long. I saw Juvia enter the guild exited as she sits next to me.
"Lucy-san look what Juvia both" she showed me a small box with some kind of lacrima inside I grab the round lacrima and it starts to turn pink. "It turns pink for girl and blue for boy. You are having a girl!" She smiles brightly. This thing is so cool.
"Juvia you should try it!" She takes the small stone and the pink starts to be slowly replaced by blue but it stops right at the middle of the stone. A white line divides the two colors. "Boy and girl?" I think out loud.
"Or that thing just doesn't work" I hear Gray's voice I look up to see him behind Juvia. I turn around to see Natsu behind me. I can't help but notice that behind him there is Freed looking this way with a red face strange.
"Juvia wants to go shopping lets go Lucy- san" she says pouting. She pulls me away as I see Natsu and Gray start a new argument. Wait is Juvia trying to get away from Gray? She pulls me into a corner and traps me against a wall. Since when did the sun went down I could swear it was morning just a few seconds ago not a cloud on the sky. I feel water in my face. I look up too see that the rain clouds were so thick that it simulated the night sky. Then the thought hits me.
"Juvia are you crying?"
"Juvia is scared, she has been followed lately. Juvia told Gray-sama, but he says she is going paranoid. Juvia knows that they are following Lucy-san and Natsu too. Juvia is scared they speak of grief with kind voices"
"Juvia"
"They have to go back to the guild" she walked away as I nothing had happened. The skies started to clear but it continued to rain. Juvia just what have you been seeing. I entered the guild hall behind Juvia to see a pretty beat up Gray and Natsu by the door way. I sat next to Natsu.
"I am feeling sick let's go home." I tell him as I kiss his lips. "I want to talk to you" I kissed him again pulling him closer "alone."
"Let's go" he gives me a wide grin, giving no resistance at all. We walk fast trying to avoid the rain as much as we can. I walk into the small kitchen. The only sitting I had is the worn down couch and the chairs in the dinning. We could barely fit in the apartment. I see Natsu sniffing the room. "Someone was in here not long ago!"
"Gods first Juvia tells me about the stalker and someone gets into the house"
"Juvia knows about the guy that has been following us?"
"There is someone following us?"He winced. "Someone is following us and you didn't tell me? How long since this Natsu!?"
He scratched the back of his head giving me a cute smile, but that wasn't going to work just now.
"Natsu!"
"They always kept distance at first I thought it was just a neighbor. Then I started to smell it in the guild. I didn't pay much attention to it." Natsu how could-!
"They got inside what if-" I looked at the things I had set up before to make tea. I had never used the box for chamomile yet it was opened. I let go of the box what had they done to my things?
*Rosy*
"I have returned from my mission Master"
"Tell me did you finish the job"
"Sorry Master they returned hours before I expected them to. I had to run before I could get caught."
"Rosy you know what that means don't you? I don't like failures and this might have been the most important mission till now."
"Yes Master, but I had no choice I stayed I would have been caught!"
"You made your choice Rosy, and you choose to betray us. You helped the enemy giving them more time to run. You know what happens if the spirit of the queen is not released?"
"Yes master!"
"Then tell me!"He is shouting
"She eliminates the threat herself"
"No, no, my dear the blood is not shred. Have you not read the walls a soul and a body must always inhabit the castle. You will die old and in pain that is for sure. Then the queen will use your body as a vessel for her vengeance."
"Is that why we need the child's soul?" he laughs a little.
"You truly are a smart one. A pure soul in exchange for the cursed queen's soul. When Igneel adopted that human boy he gave him a right to the throne the child's soul will carry that inheritance since birth and with such a pure soul like that of a newborn cannot be found easily."
"and we will live eternally" at what cost.
"Till the end of the times" It is time again, I hear the loud crash…