Chapter 6:
Lucy woke up in the morning with a stroke of inspiration. All the head hunting she had done the previous two days could have been short circuited if she had just called out Gemini and asked her for information. She really felt like an idiot now that she thought about it. Gemini could be used for both battle and for gathering information and weakness.
Lucy did her morning routine in a rush and decided to summon Gemini while on her walk to the guild. She hoped Laxus would be there at the guild so she could ask Gemini to copy him. While walking to the guild along the river Lucy took out Gemini's key and called her out. Both blue sprit entities appeared next to her, greeting her in their awfully cute voice.
"Hey Mini and Gemi I was wondering if could ask you a favor today." She told them.
"Sure Lucy" They replied.
"Today at the guild can you please copy Laxus, the lightning dragon slayer" Lucy said.
"Lucy, we remember this man. His power levels are much greater than yours, therefore we cannot copy him fully. We can't aid you in a battle with his form." The twins stated.
"I am aware of this guys, but what I need from him is not power level but information. Therefore please can you copy him especially his minds current thoughts and his memories?" Lucy pleaded with the spirits.
"Master, we can do that. However it will take time for us to copy him since your power levels are vastly different. You must keep the dragon slayer occupied so we can do our job."
"Sure, I can do that. How long will it take you to finish completing your scan?" Lucy asked eagerly thinking it would only take a few minutes.
"A minimum of half an hour." The twins replied.
Lucy's heart fell. How was she going to keep Laxus Dreyar occupied for more than half an hour? They were nakama, but they had barely held a conversation together. Lucy just hoped that inspiration would hit her while they walked towards the guild.
While walking towards the guild with Gemini, Lucy was on the edge of the wall next to the river when she had the boatman call to her: "Be careful princess and the blue …ah…things floating next to her. Don't fall in the river."
Lucy cheerfully waved back while Gemini was muttering about how they were not things.
Lucy reached the guild and called out a greeting to everyone while walking to the bar. Mira greeted her cheerfully while she sat down and asked for her order. Lucy asked for a muffin and some hot chocolate to start. While waiting for her order she saw that Laxus was indeed in the guild at the back relaxing in his black leather pants, purple shirt and his huge coat, while his team was talking to Team Shadow Gear.
Gemini floated behind her and looked around the guild curiously. When Mira came back with her order she asked Lucy, "Nah Lucy, why are your spirits out"?
Lucy thought quickly. She could not tell Mira that she needed Gemini for information purposes so she replied: "I'm strengthening my magical container Mira. Having a spirit out will hopefully increase my magic endurance."
Mira nodded to this and then learned towards Lucy discreetly. Lucy leaned towards Mira as well wondering what the take over mage would whisper in her ear. "Nah, Lucy I know you like Natsu and all but I really think you should stop dressing to match Laxus if you want to catch Natsu's attention."
Lucy had no idea what to say. She looked down at her outfit to indeed confirm she matched the lightning dragon slayer. She wore black leather boots that came up to her knee and a dark purple dress that was simple and strapless. A small fur lined jacket completed her outfit.
"Mira," she replied in a harsh whisper, "I did not plan this outfit to match with anyone."
Mira nodded sagely and replied: "I know Lucy but just be careful. You know you chose the most oblivious person in the guild as your crush and you need all the help you can get." She then walked away to go get someone else's order.
Lucy sighed to herself, at least she was alone for the moment.
"Matching outfits, please you really are a kid. You don't get a man's attention by matching your outfit with his" a voice said. Lucy looked towards the voice and there stood Evergreen. "You really are bad at this romance stuff Lucy. When I said I'd help you, I did not think you would give me so much work." Evergreen said.
Lucy groaned out loud and told Evergreen: "I did not purposely match my clothes to his. I just chose this. My other clothes are in the wash."
"Sure Lucy, now go up and talk to him. You're wasting good make out time sitting here."
Lucy nodded to Evergreen and went towards Laxus. She dug around in a small bag and took out a pen and some paper. She told Gemini mentally to start her scan the minute they began talking.
She walked towards Laxus and stood by him waiting in order for him to notice her. When he opened his eyes he looked at her curiously and invited her to sit down on the bench opposite him. "Can I help you with something, Cheerleader?" He asked.
Lucy bristled at the name but decided to ignore it. "Yes Laxus, I was hoping to ask you some questions for my novel. I am at a stage where I need some really good battle scenes and was hoping you would help with that?"
Laxus stared at her for a few minutes and said: "Let me get this straight, Cheerleader. You want me to describe my battles for you? Sure I could do that. Lord knows you have not been in any exciting battles with Flame Brain and Ice–Prick over there. Those two don't know the meaning of fight." He had a smug look on his face when he said this.
Lucy sighed. Even after joining the guild Laxus did not lose that small arrogant part of his personality. Sure, he was calmer now, but still that slight arrogance was there. She did not want to get in an argument with her target though, so she sat down preparing to take notes.
At the same time Master Macorov was standing upstairs overlooking the guild hall. He needed to send someone with a message to Blue Pegasus and he needed the right person for the job. Natsu would destroy the letter before he would get there while all the male mages would run the minute he asked because of Blue Pegasus's master. Looking at the end of the guild hall He spotted Lucy and Laxus talking together. "Target acquired," he thought to himself.
Walking towards the pair, he reached them just in time to see Lucy smack Laxus over the head with a bunch of papers. "What have we here?" He thought to himself.
Lucy looked up at the Master after giving Laxus a smack on the head for reminding her about how torn her shirt got after Tenroujima. "He was such a perv", Lucy thought to herself.
"Master Hello." She greeted the Master cheerfully.
"Jiji" Laxus nodded his head at the master, "What's up? Is it time to move? Have they shown signs of activity yet?"
Master gave a warning look to Laxus and shook his head. Lucy made a mental note to analyze that information for later. "Actually I have an mission for you and Lucy", the Master continued on to say, "I need you to deliver a message to Master Bob in Blue Pegasus."
As Master Macarov expected Laxus froze at this knowing the reputation of Master Bob but he knew Laxus would not turn the mission down regardless of how scary Master Bob was. His pride would not allow him to, while Lucy just looked frightened out of her socks. The master wondered at this expression. He had thought that Lucy was close to mages in Blue Pegasus and would not mind going.
"Sure Master, we don't mind going. Where is the message?" Lucy said.
"It's in my office, please come and follow me." The Master said, beckoning them.
Lucy and Laxus silently followed the master to his office. Lucy wanted to cry to herself. She had just received a mental message from Gemini stating she was done with the scan and would store it in her memory when the Master came up with this delivery mission. Instead of the arranged 30 minutes. It looked like she would have to spend the whole day with Laxus himself. How would she survive? Especially because all during her thirty minutes, her traitorous mind kept on dredging up images of her and Laxus together. How was she supposed to help it if it looked like his chest was amazing to curl into and his height when around her would make her feel like a perfectly protected girl. Not to mention his hair looked so soft she wanted to run her fingers through it, just to see if it was really as soft as it looked. Curse Evergreen to the depths and beyond for putting that idea in her head.
Well, she thought, at least she got the required information she needed for later. Hopefully it would all be worth it.
A/N: Well they finally meet and still Lucy has no new information. Please Read and review. Constructive criticism and ideas are more than welcome Please pm me. More reviews encourages me to write more. Also Apologies for the earlier notice but thanks to it I now have a beta who is an expect in taking my strange English and turning it into English the rest of you can understand.