Chapter 6: An outing with friends
"I wonder how they are right now."Lucy leaned her face on her right hand, as she looked down at her drink.
It has been 2 months since Lucy saw her childhood friends. Natsu noticed that his best friend has been sulking ever since he and Lisanna arrived at the guild. Suddenly Natsu came up with an idea for Lucy to cheer up. After gathering up with his team, he finally shared his idea to them.
"The beach?" Gray asked, thinking it over if it was really a good idea.
"Yeah! You can also bring your other friends with us. The more the happier." Happy added.
"Hmm… we have been doing a lot of work lately maybe it's a good idea to go to the beach." Erza said, already re-quiping herself into wearing a swimsuit.
"So we're definitely going." Natsu said, grinning. Natsu even smiled more when he saw that Lucy wasn't sulking anymore.
"Okay, it settled then. We'll meet at the beach at exactly 8 o'clock in the morning." Erza announced before leaving the guild.
"Finally, our team is just going to relax for one whole day. I wonder Levy wouldn't mind to come with us. Happy did say we can bring other people." Lucy said, as she walked towards to her book-loving friend.
The next day…
It was a lovely day, as the sun was shining radiantly, the sky was in a deep color of blue and there was a refreshing breeze that could make anyone in the city fall asleep. Yes, it was a perfect day for a beach outing. Everyone in team Natsu was already at the beach except for a certain blonde mage.
"Where could she be? It's already 10 minutes past eight." Natsu complained, as if he never got used to Lucy's multiple tardiness.
"Hey guys, I'm sorry if I'm a little late." Lucy shouted, as she was running towards her friends.
"Lucy! What took…" Natsu's smile turned into a frown when he saw two familiar people following his blonde friend.
"Why the hell are they here?" Natsu scowled.
"Because I invited them." Lucy said. This made her friends to look at her in a confuse way. "Why would Lucy invite the two dragon slayers from Sabertooth?" were all in their thoughts.
"Why did you invite them?" Natsu yelled.
"So what if I brought them? You brought Lisanna, Happy brought Wendy and Charles, Gray brought Juvia and Lyon and Erza brought Milliana. All of you brought your childhood friends but why can't I bring mine?" Lucy said, trying to defend her friends. Her friends went silent but not for Natsu who wasn't still content with Lucy bringing the two dragons slayers.
"So why didn't you asked Levy to come with you?" Natsu asked.
"I did ask her but…"
Quick Flashback
"So would you, Levy?"
"That sounds fun but I can't."
"Why can't you?" Lucy pouted at her bookworm friend.
"I'm really sorry Lucy but Gajeel and I will be going on a mission tomorrow." Levy said, feeling sorry for her disappointed friend. Lucy had no choice but to let her friend go. When Lucy finally arrived at her apartment she noticed that one of her windows was opened. She hurriedly opened the door and went upstairs.
"It couldn't be the others, they'll be too busy preparing for tomorrow." Lucy thought as she inspected her room.
"Lucy-chan, you really need to buy more food if you always have unexpected visitors." A familiar voice called out from the kitchen. Lucy ran to her kitchen and saw 2 people with their exceeds, eating most of her food.
"Sting! Rogue! What the hell are you doing here?" Lucy shouted.
"Frosch and Lector miss you so we came here." Sting said, munching on a red apple.
"Actually, those two misses you most of all." Lector whispered into Lucy's ear. Lucy smiled as she heard that her friends were missing her, too. After Rogue and Sting finished eating, they settled their selves on Lucy's couch and started listening to their friend's babbling.
"We're in." Sting said.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked, puzzled.
"You're friend, Levy, couldn't accompany you tomorrow so maybe we can go in her place." Sting suggested. Actually, it wasn't a bad idea but there was one problem. Natsu.
"Don't worry. We'll talk to him tomorrow. We better get going now." Rogue said, jumping out of the window. Sting and Lector followed him.
"See you tomorrow, Miss Lucy." Frosch said, waving goodbye to Lucy as she flew out of her room.
Present time…
"What? They ate all of your food!" Happy said, not sticking to the main problem. Charles whacked the stupid blue cat on the head for saying such nonsense complains.
"Natsu, Lucy has the right to choose whoever she wants to bring today so let her be." Lisanna said; defending Lucy's right. The others nodded to Lisanna's argument and thought that she has a good point. Natsu had no choice but to listen to Lisanna and apologized to Lucy's friends.
"Now that's over. Let's have some summer fun." Erza said, finishing preparing their beach spot.
"Aye!" everyone shouted, as they ran to the ocean.
As Lucy expected, Sting started a fight with Natsu by playing a competitive volleyball game. The winner would have Lucy for one whole day; this caught Rogue's attention which made him joined the foolish bet. Natsu wasn't about to give up so he quickly took Gray from Juvia and Lyon and started the game. Lucy resented of being the prize of their little game but no one listened to her complaints. Juvia gave a death glare at Lucy since Juvia thought that this was another scheme for her to have Gray.
"Juvia won't let you have Gray-sama." Juvia said, glaring daggers at Lucy.
"Juvia! Let's go get some ice cream, my treat." Lyon said, dragging Juvia to the nearest ice cream stand. Lucy was kind of relief that Gray brought Lyon with them. When Juvia and Lyon left, Lucy continued watching the four boys playing an intense volleyball game. Both teams had determination to win Lucy but only one team could win. Their never-ending game attracted a lot of audience in the beach. With one missed shot, team Fairy Tail lost. As the game ended, a lot of beautiful women started to flirt with the boys. Four well-endowed women were even trying to seduce them.
"You were great today. Wanna hangout with us?" said the brunette, as she was pushing herself to Sting's chest.
"Move along, you old hags!" As the three girls from Fairy Tail were taking holds onto their boys.
"Sorry but they're taken!" Lisanna said, holding onto Natsu's muscular arm.
"Lisanna's right if you don't want any trouble just take your leave." Juvia added, strapping her arms onto Gray's.
"So move along, you witches" Lucy said holding one arm onto Sting and the other arm onto Rogue. The jealousy of the girls made their boys to smile at them but only made the seducers irritated.
"Are they really yours?" said the green-haired one. The three girls went silent after hearing her insult, earning victory smiles on the seducers.
"Yes!" the boys said. The girls looked up to their boys and saw how serious they look when they said 'yes'.
"And they're ours to keep!" the boys added, making the girls to blush.
"So are you convinced?" Sting said. The seducers felt ashamed and left in a hurry without answering Sting's question. The girls felt relieved when the seducers were gone.
"So was it true?" Lisanna said, still strapping herself onto Natsu's arm.
"What do you mean?" Natsu asked, looking down at Lisanna's blue eyes.
"That we're yours?" Juvia said, feeling uneasy holding onto Gray's arms for the first time.
"Of course we're yours." Gray smiled, making Juvia's face to steam a bit. Suddenly, Natsu and the others noticed that Lucy and the two dragon slayers were gone.
"Sorry Natsu-san but Lucy's ours for the whole day." Sting shouted, looking back at Natsu. This time Natsu let the two to have Lucy since he respected his best friend's decision on choosing them. When the three were finally out of sight, Natsu suggested that they should go for a swim before eating lunch.
"But Natsu, you do remember that I don't know how to swim." Lisanna said, feeling shy to admit that she doesn't know how to swim.
"Then I'll teach you." Natsu grinned. All of a sudden, Juvia thought of an idea. Juvia told Gray she doesn't know how to swim and was asking if he could teach her. When Gray was about to agree, Lyon suddenly appeared and hastily agreed to Juvia's request. Gray didn't mind if Lyon would teach her but Juvia hesitated and insisted Gray to teach her. The two ice mages looked at each other and thought of an idea.
"We'll both teach you how to swim. Is that okay with you Juvia?" Gray suggested. Juvia nodded, as long as Gray was there with her, she'll agree to it.
Meanwhile…
"Why are we here?" Lucy asked. Lucy, Rogue and Sting stopped at the rear part of the beach where no one can see them yet this part of the beach has a much beautiful view of the sea. Lucy was so mesmerized by the view that she didn't notice that the two boys had left her. Realizing that they were gone, Lucy got annoyed and started to walk back. As she was about to return to the others, she suddenly heard a familiar tune. It has been a long time since she heard that wonderful tune. She turned around and saw Rogue and Sting holding a heart-shaped necklace. Lucy was astonished to see the old thing.
"Lucy-chan, this is for you." Rogue said, placing the necklace around her neck.
"How?" Lucy uttered, as she touch the necklace.
"Remember when we were kids. The first time we came here, you were wearing that locket but it got lost when we played at this very spot right here and we didn't had another chance to look for it." Sting explained.
"But that was 11 years ago, how could you even remember such a small thing?" Lucy asked.
"It might be a small thing to us but it's a huge thing for you since that's the last gift that your mother gave you before she died." Rogue said, crossing his arms. "I hope you still remember that there's a special tune and a special image whenever you open it."
Lucy nodded. When she opened the locket, she saw a picture. The picture had so many joyful memories that came with it. Lucy can still remember the day she and her family (with Sting and Rogue) took the picture. The picture may look perfect but it took them 3 hours to make it perfect because the day they took the photo, everything went from good to worse. When they took the photo, Sting didn't want to wear to the stupid clothes that Lucy picked out for him but Rogue was willing to wear the clothes since it wasn't really that ridiculous; it took Lucy and Rogue half an hour to convince Sting into wearing the clothes; when the boys were done wearing their clothes, it was time for little Lucy to wear hers when she finished putting on her pink frilly dress, a maid came into her room bringing Lucy her morning tea but the maid accidentally trip over as she was handing Lucy her tea and the tea spilt on Lucy dress, leaving a big stain on it. Lucy had no choice but to look for a substitute for her ruined dress. That day was the worst day for the Heartfilias since an accident occurred after another but putting aside their bad luck, their family picture was a success.
"How did you find this anyway?" Lucy asked, coming back from her flashback.
The two boys shrugged as they tried to explain to Lucy.
"It wasn't easy but it was worth finding it." Sting said. A simple explanation from a simple-minded person. Lucy was about to ask another question when she suddenly heard someone calling out their names. The three looked up in the sky and saw 4 cats flying above them.
"It's time for lunch." Happy shouted, flying down until he met Lucy's face.
"You three could have some time later. We should better get going now before Erza scolds us." Charles said, crossing her paws as usual.
"Come on Sting. They cooked some fish for us." Lector said, landing on his partner's shoulder, getting excited to eat some barbecued fish.
"Fro's hungry, too." Frosch said, flying over to her owner.
"We should better get going then." Lucy said, putting Happy on her arms while Charles was the only cat walking since the other exceeds had their own humans to relax on. As they arrived at their beach spot, they saw everyone was already eating lunch.
"Lucy! Where did these two slayers drag you to?" Erza asked, pointing a sword at Rogue's and Sting's necks. The two dragon slayers didn't move since they were too afraid of the sharpness of Erza's swords. Lucy explained everything to Erza after listening to Lucy's explanation, Erza made her swords disappeared. The two dragon slayers were glad that the Titania listened to their friend's explanation.
"Gray-sama say "ahhh"." Juvia was trying to feed Gray some of the bento that she made. When Gray opened his mouth, Juvia got excited but her excitement didn't last long since Lyon arrived at the time she was about to feed Gray.
"Hey Juvia, could you try some of my homemade cooking?" Lyon said, showing Juvia a delicious looking bento. Even though Juvia wants to reject Lyon's request, she just can't since she doesn't want to hurt Lyon's feelings. When Lyon fed a spoonful of his bento to Juvia, Juvia found his cooking exquisite. His food tasted like a fancy restaurant chef did it.
"Do you like it?" Lyon asked. Juvia nodded as she carefully chews the food. After looking at Juvia's reaction, Gray also tried Lyon's food. He hates to admit it but Lyon's food was really good.
"Lyon-kun would you teach me how to cook like this?" Juvia said as her eyes sparkled with anticipation. Lyon's heart flutter when he heard Juvia calling him Lyon-kun and that she wanted him to teach her how to cook. He started to daydream about Juvia and him together in a kitchen as he teaches her how to cook romantically.
"Are they a love triangle?" some people thought whenever they passed them.
Meanwhile, Lisanna was also doing the same gesture as Juvia to Natsu. Natsu was okay with Lisanna feeding him. Natsu was just so slow to figure out that Lisanna was trying to be lovey dovey with him.
"This brochette is really good, Lisanna. What's in it?" Natsu asked, still munching on some of the meat.
"Mostly spices." Lisanna said, smiling, feeling satisfy that Natsu loved her cooking.
"What kind of spices?" Natsu asked.
"Cayenne pepper." Lisanna answered.
"Oh." Natsu said, still munching on the meat and pepper of the brochette as if the cayenne pepper was just a normal spice to him. Suddenly, he felt a burning sensation inside his mouth. Natsu was shouting "water""water" as fire came out of his mouth. Happy flew over to Lisanna and Natsu with a bottle of water in his paws.
"Sorry, Natsu. I didn't think that you'll get affected by the spice." Lisanna said, feeling guilty of her best friend's burnt mouth. Natsu didn't want Lisanna to be sad so he put a big grin on his face to make her feel better but what really made Lisanna happy was Natsu's big puffy lips. She laughed at him so hard but Natsu didn't mind.
"I miss how crazy and fun Fairy Tail members were." Milliana said who was sitting next to Wendy.
"Did you used to be a Fairy Tail member?" Wendy asked, putting her arms around her white exceed.
"No and yes." Milliana said, making the blue-haired girl confuse.
"I wasn't officially a Fairy Tail member but when I left with my friends, Erza and the others gave us an official Fairy Tail farewell ceremony. They made us feel like family." Milliana explained. "Aren't you lucky being in Fiore's friendliest guild?"
Wendy nodded at the cat woman next to her. She was happy that Fairy Tail accepted her ever since Caitshelter disappeared. Fairy Tail was her loving family.
"Here you go." Erza said, giving various barbecues to each person and cat. "Where's Lucy?"
"I think she's over there with Sting-san and Rogue-san and their exceeds." Wendy was pointing the Titania to Lucy's whereabouts. Erza saw that Lucy was having fun with her old friends so she ceased herself to interrupt them.
"How do you like it?" Lucy said after feeding Sting and Rogue her homemade chicken lollipop.
"It's delicious." The two said in unison, making Lucy to smile. The two dragon slayers' faces became red when they saw Lucy's adorable smile. When fangirls of the two dragon slayers passed by their path, they just get jealous and irritated at the blonde mage. Why does she have the two hottest guys in Fiore? Were all in their minds.
"They're jealous." Lector said, catching the attention of the three youngsters.
"Don't mind those girls, Lucy. We only have eyes on you." Sting smirked. Rogue agreed.
"They like you." Lector and Frosch teased. Lucy just blushed at their remarks. The blonde mage covered her face with her bangs; she was too shy to let Sting and Rogue see her scarlet face. Seeing they successfully made Lucy to blush, the two started to cling next to her , attracting more irritated fangirls. One girl even try to rampage at Lucy but she was stopped when she felt Erza giving a death glare from behind.
"You two are attracting a lot of people." Lucy said, struggling to let go of the two dragon slayers' grips but they were too strong for her to handle.
"Lucy you're ours for the day, remember?" Rogue whispered into Lucy's ear. A blush crept into Lucy's face as she felt Rogue's mouth near her ear. Lucy quickly stood up, it was amazing that she finally manage to let go of two strong grips. This sudden reaction made the two boys look up to her.
"I need to go to the bathroom." Lucy made a silly excuse so that she can leave Rogue and Sting without having them to follow her.
"What's wrong with me?" Lucy said, splashing some water from the faucet into her face. "I finally have some time with them without making Natsu and the others to argue with them and what did I do? I just ran away."
Lucy looked up to the mirror that was in front of her and slap her face with no reason to do so. Yet the sudden slap made her realize that she was with her loved ones that she was longing for to be with ever since she left the mansion. This made her confidence to come back as she left the bathroom quickly so that she can be with her beloveds.
"Rogue! Sting! I'm ba…" Lucy stopped when she saw two other girls talking to the half-naked boys.
"Who was that blonde girl you two were with? Why were you even with a girl a like her?" the girl asked. She had light blue hair caressing until her waist, she was wearing a very revealing two piece floral-printed swimsuit that made her chest to stick out as she was hugging it so that she can woo the two boys. As for her friend, she had long black silky hair that was tied in a ponytail, as she too was wearing a very revealing two piece floral-printed swimsuit but it had a different design and color yet it also made her chest revealing. It was so obvious that these two were irritated at Lucy's lucky jackpot with the two hottest men in Fiore so they tried to woo them as soon as she left. Lucy saw the smirks and smiles the two were giving to the girls and she felt stupid that she even thought that her childhood friends still loved her like when they were kids. When Lucy was just about to walk away to the other direction, she heard the two boys spoke to the girls.
"That blonde girl we were with is Lucy Heartfilia and we are her loyal bodyguards." Sting said, smirking at the blue-haired girl that was in front of him.
"And that'll never change." Rogue said, turning around to see Lucy's dumbfounded look. Unlike the 4 other girls earlier, these two understand the boys' feelings and gladly walked away without an argument to be heard from them.
"Loyal bodyguards? Those positions stopped ever since I left my heritage as the next Heartfilia heiress." Lucy said, giggling by the idea of 'loyal bodyguards.'
"You may stop being the heiress of the Heartfilia but we promise your parents before they died and we can't just break promises from people who are dead now. It will be rude." Sting said, poking Lucy's forehead.
"Before they died? What did you promise them?" Lucy asked out of curiosity.
"The promise we made to your mom the day before she died was that we should take care of you until you get married and while you were involved with the Tenroujima incident, your father didn't gave up on waiting for you but before a few weeks before he died, he asked us to always wait for your return and when you did return, we will always be guarding you." Rogue explained, crossing his arms like before. Lucy smiled at the thought that her parents want her to remain safe under the hands of her childhood friends. She was also glad that the two didn't even thought about breaking the promises that they made.
"Oi! Lucy-chan! Sting-san! Rogue-san! Natsu brought some watermelons and wanted to smack all of them before we set some fireworks tonight!" Wendy said, running as fast as she can towards the Stellar mage.
"Fireworks?" Lucy asked the now panting Wendy. Wendy just nodded.
"The o-others w-wa-wanted to see set some fireworks before summer e-ends so they brought different kinds of f-i-fireworks for us to set off with tonight." Wendy explained, catching her breath. "So while waiting for night to come, Natsu and the others made some plans to do so we won't get bored."
"Okay, let's go then." Lucy said, holding the two dragon slayer's hands while she drags them to the watermelon smashing game.
Like what Wendy had just said Natsu, Gray and Erza did made plans for their activities for the whole afternoon. After they smashed 7 watermelons, the girls buried the boys in sand when the 3 slayers accidentally have fallen asleep after getting tired of smashing some melons, then they started having a sand castle making contest, the groups split into three; the first team consisted Natsu, Lisanna, Happy, Charles and Wendy, the second team consisted Lucy, Rogue, Sting, Frosch and Lector and the third team consisted Erza, Milliana, Gray, Lyon and Juvia; they had a fun time making the sandcastles. It was a big surprise for the others to see that Sting and Rogue were quite good in making sandcastles and thus making Lucy's team the winner.
After their short sandcastle making contest, Gray and Natsu started handing out water guns for each and one of them. It was really weird that they brought the right amount of guns for each of them to use. They spent the whole afternoon squirting water at each other until the sun was finally setting. Erza got ready to bring out the fireworks while the other girls were barbecuing some meat that they kept somewhere unknown so that the boys (pacifically some dragon slayers who are always hungry) won't eat it before nighttime could come.
"What a peaceful night." Rogue inhaled the cold air as the starry sky reminded him another one his childhood moments but this moment was only shared with his dragon before he killed it. The thought of it made him a little guilty for killing his foster parent but then he smiled a bit, remembering that if he hasn't killed his dragon he wouldn't have met Sting and they wouldn't have been found by the Heartfilia's and that he wouldn't have met with their beautiful daughter, Lucy.
"Still feeling guilty about what you did?"
Rogue didn't have to turn around to know who was talking to him. It was clearly stupid for him if he suddenly forgets a sweet angel's voice.
"Just a little bit."
"Only a little bit? All these years, you and Sting never told me about your foster parents. The only thing I knew about them was about their deaths and killers. I don't even know their names."
"Sceadu."
"Huh?" The blonde mage tilted her head in confusion.
"Sceadu means darkness and that's also the name of my dragon. Sceadu lives in total darkness, he never associated with other dragons yet he still adopted me when I was still an infant; he raised me, protected me and taught me about shadow magic. He raised me as his own. I can't really explain why I even killed my own parent after all he did for me."
Lucy could say that he was sincere in what he said about his dragon. She can feel that Rogue was feeling really guilty about murdering the dragon but she couldn't help but still feel disappointed for her friend's past action. She knew Rogue really meant what he said so she didn't ask again. This time, she looked at the other dragon slayer next to Rogue.
"You want to know mine, don't you?" Sting doesn't have to be a mind reader to know what Lucy was thinking since it was already obvious because of Lucy's endless stare at him.
"That is if you won't mind me asking." Sting just smiled a bit at Lucy's innocent face.
"It's okay, I'll tell you since you want to know so much but don't put this in your novel, okay?" Lucy just giggled; it was her way of agreeing.
"My dragon's name is Saber. Saber adopted me when I was still an infant. He also raised me like his own. He taught me dragon slayer magic. He was somehow the opposite of Sceadu, he usually meet and talk to other dragons, he even let me play with other dragons and he even help wandering humans around the forest at times. He told me he used to be good friends with my parents before they hand me over to him. I was mad when I heard that my own parents gave me away while they were still alive." Sting's smile faded when he continued his story. "The thought of it made me have no control with my powers and because of the rage; I accidentally hit my only living parent. When I finally realized what I did, I came to Saber to help him but he only told me "Your parents were saving you so they gave you to me… they love you and they've always had… Sting promise me to never harbor your anger at them, okay..." those were his last words. I think. He seems like he was gonna tell me more but he immediately died after my blasted attack."
"Sabertooth…" Lucy suddenly blurted out which cause both boys to look at her, confused.
"Sabertooth… it has the words saber in it… is that one of the reasons why you chose that guild?" Lucy asked.
"So you've notice that. Clever as usual Lucy-chan." The two dragon slayers were not really surprised with Lucy's cleverness, they just never imagine that Lucy would catch that fast.
"The word "Saber" in Sabertooth reminds you of your foster dragon parent?" Lucy asked again but gentler than before.
"Of course it reminded me of Saber, I've never forget about him and that goes for Rogue, too, he never forgotten about his dragon either" Sting explained.
"That's all I need to know." Lucy gave the two boys a surprise hug. Now she completely understands that they never intended to kill their parents. The two boys' faces flushed in embarrassment.
"Oi! Lucy-chan… food's ready, come back here with your dragon friends." Natsu shouted at Lucy while he was eating a barbecue. Lucy was surprised when Natsu said "friends" instead of "idiots". Did Natsu finally accept her childhood friends just after spending a day with them? Or was he just being polite to his best friend's childhood friends like she was being polite to his childhood friend Lisanna?
As they arrive to their beach spot, they saw the same scenes as lunchtime; Gray, Juvia and Lyon were in one spot eating together (and feeding each other like before), Lisanna, Natsu and Happy eating like a happy family as a cat as their child; Milliana hugging Charles while Wendy was eating with Erza next to her.
"Boy! I'm so hungry." Sting took a big bite out of the roasted chicken while Lector was just watching him while he was taking a bite out of his fish. Of course he was hungry after having a non-stop water gun fight with the Salamander. They didn't stop until Erza told them it was about dinner time.
"Delicious as usual." Lector announced, holding the skeleton fish up.
"Fro agrees." Fro was also doing her fellow exceed's action. The two exceeds were really glad to tag along with their partners. Lucy giggled at the cute frog suit-wearing exceed as the exceed was mimicking the other exceed's movements. Suddenly Lucy's mouth was covered by a hand and her hands were being held by another hand. It was obvious she was being dragged somewhere but somehow Sting and the others didn't notice this.
As the hands were removed from her mouth and her hands, Lucy immediately kicked the person behind her, making the person to say a quiet "oww". Little did Lucy know that her so-called kidnapper was actually Rogue. Lucy quickly says multiple apologies to the shadow dragon slayer.
"It's okay. I deserve it for dragging you here without you and the others knowing." Lucy looked at their surroundings for a brief moment and noticed that Rogue dragged her to where they were just this morning.
"Why did you drag me here anyway? And why didn't anyone notice me being dragged here?" Even though she was just talking to Rogue, she still wanted some explanation for the sudden 'kidnapping'.
"It was quite easy. I used my shadow magic for us to disguise ourselves in the shadows. Actually I'm surprise that Sting and Frosch didn't recognize me."
"Ok but you still haven't answered my other question. Why did you drag me here? Alone?" Lucy's voice became frail when she said the last word. There was a blush that crept into Rogue's face but since it was nighttime Lucy didn't notice it.
"Because I need to tell you something in private." Lucy felt that her heart skipped a beat with Rogue's answer. Rogue leaned closer to Lucy's face. Their lips were just an inch away. Lucy closed her eyes as Rogue put his arms around Lucy's waist.
Rogue was about to say something when suddenly, a yacht just happened to pass by with a familiar person in it.
"Oi! Lucy-chan! Rogue-san! Nice meeting you here." It was their other childhood friend, Blake Etoile. With the sudden appearance of their blond friend, Rogue had quickly let go of Lucy, making Lucy to stumble but with Blake's magical powers, he swiftly caught Lucy when she was about to fall down. This made Lucy to blush a bit.
"Everyone meet Blake. He's another one of my childhood friends."
"Nice to meet you." Blake gave out a heartwarming smile to everyone. The other girls except Erza found Blake really more handsome than the white and shadow dragon slayers.
Since Blake just happened to pass by, Lucy thought that it would be great timing for him to meet her other friends. Everyone thought Blake a bit friendlier than Lucy's other two childhood friends.
"Lucy, how are my…uh, your new celestial spirits?" Blake almost forgot that Lucy was the new owner of his old celestial keys.
"They're fine. Do you want to see them?" Without waiting for Blake's response, she immediately opens the three gates of her silver keys. The three spirits greeted Lucy with high respect as the white cloud disappeared. After they've greeted Lucy, they quickly notice their old master and with no second to spare, they hugged him so tight (except for Draco of course, he was too big to hug him so he just patted his head).
"Master Blake… we missed you so much." Hydra was crying so much when she saw her previous master but not for Hercules, he just gave Blake a quick hug and had move away from Blake.
"You told Blake to come, didn't you?" Rogue and Sting were a few meters away from the gang.
"Maybe or maybe not." Sting just chuckled at his friend.
"Hmmph… you just ruined a good moment." Rogue mumbled to himself, as he was looking at Lucy's face from a distance.
"Why? Did I bother you?" Sting teased. Rogue just ignored the white dragon slayer, he was still in a good mood by what almost happen to him and Lucy before Blake suddenly appeared and ruined the moment. Rogue just smirked at his partner before leaving the speechless dragon slayer.
Sorry for the super late update...
It was almost a confession of love w and a first kiss X3
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Why didn't i go on with it?*talking to myself again*haha
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Sadly. i have bad news... :C
i wont be updating for a long time since school is almost starting and so, i'll be busy..im really sorry *bowing down*
don't worry though, next time when i finally go online i'll definitely upload a new chapter
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I hope you enjoyed reading my new chapter though... X3
...see you next time