The Seven Swords of Lucy
Chapter 3: Jaime's Rebellion
"That idiot," Lucy muttered to herself as she pulled her bags while looking for her cabin. Who would have thought that after that hasty conversation Mystogan, he would just leave her with a bag of golden dragons (he said Lucy would need it when she comes to Westeros) and a cabin in a ship? This was a 5-star ship, too. A five star ship forgotten in time, with the emphasis on old. So generous of him…
After he told her everything he knew about his father's plan, he just disappeared, like a bubble disappearing into thin air. He said he would be back, by the time they had already arrive at Westeros. She wanted to ask him one more thing though, about the prophecy, but it was already too late. Great, he's gone… so how am I going to find this guy named Li Syaoran?
Brown hair, brown eyes, has a cold demeanor, and he's holding a sword. Those were the only descriptions of him by Mystogan.
I wonder why he added the cold part…
She thought of how big the ship was, and she was almost on the verge of giving up.
The ship was almost as big as Noah's Ark! Now how am I going to find a single person in this one ship? She had already seen many people who had swords, brown eyes, brown hair and a cold behavior. So far many had fit into Mystogan's description.
Why didn't he added more specific descriptions like his build, height, hotness, cuteness, what type of sword, sharpness of sword etc?
"Li Syaoran… Li Syaoran…," Lucy muttered to herself, thinking about the guy Mystogan had requested (or rather demanded) to find. He said he could help her.
She kept walking inside the ship until she found her cabin.
Cabin 7…Very funny. I wonder if fate is playing on me…
She thinks she's right. Fate does play on her. As if her very existence is a joke itself, a joke someone up there is laughing at.
Seven swords…now seventh cabin…I wonder what the next seven is…
Aboard the ship they call Jaime's Rebellion, Lucy was still thinking that she had read about this ship before. As far as she could remember, it was a warship before used by the one they call Jaime Lannister, to overthrow King Joffrey from his throne, his alleged son or nephew as far as the tales could say, if the records and evidences could be believed. They say that their present king and his brother and sister were incestuously conceived by their mother, the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, and her brother Jaime. But why would Jaime Lannister make a coup d' etat against his own son or nephew, no one could say.
It's disgusting though…a brother and a sister… She didn't want to think about it.
The warship was converted into cruise-like ship (or a galleon) by the Queen after they had defeated Jaime. The name was retained, but all the components of a warship, all the cannons and the like, were removed and put to their King's new ship, they called it Joffrey's Triumph. It still looked like a warship though…
Lucy was still thinking as she opened her cabin. Pulling her heavy bags, she heaved open the door. Inside, she gasped when she saw someone inside. He was guy, standing beside her would-be bed. He had a fair complexion, chestnut-brown hair and very beautiful pair of brown eyes, like milk chocolate. He looked grim, like he lost someone just recently. Add a black tuxedo; he looked like the perfect James Bond, new version. One catch though:
He was holding a sword. A Chinese jian, in fact.
"Lucy Heartfilia-san, I've been waiting for you."
In shock, she threw her bag at him, aiming perfectly to his head. He screamed in pain.
"Ow, what was that for?" he shouted, rubbing his hit head.
"WHO ARE YOU?" was all Lucy could scream about. Who's this guy? Maybe he's sent by someone out there to kill me! Maybe he…
"I thought Myst-mist-mi-mi-mist…whatever his name is, already told you the basics," he looked at her, contemplating inside his head if ever he had met the wrong girl. At some point he even thought he did.
As if Lucy could have known whoever he was.
"You have met Mystogan?" Lucy asked, incredulous. Somehow she couldn't believe that he was the one who can help her, after entering a room without even the consent of the owner. He was even the first one who entered, not the owner herself.
I remember Natsu, Erza, Happy and Gray doing exactly the same thing before, she thought. The thought of them made a hurting wrench on her heart. She didn't want to remember, but it was inevitable. She can't get away from it. All the memories, all that they had been through, the good and the bad, happy and sad, best and the worst, it was hard to forget. Her eyes were misty again.
The guy noticed it too. "Hey, are you alright?''
"No, nothing," she said, wiping the tears that was almost beginning to flow. Lucy didn't want to cry, especially in front of this stranger. "It's just that, I remember my friends doing the same thing."
"Doing what?"
"Invading someone's room," she growled, getting angry again by the fact that this stranger was still inside her room. She didn't even know his name!
"Who are you anyway?" Lucy almost screamed.
"Li Syaoran," he responded. "I thought the guy already told you who I am."
"I'm just making sure that I have not met the wrong guy, making the wrong assumptions," she countered.
"Then we're the same. I thought I met the wrong girl too."
Lucy laughed. For the first time after all that happened, she laughed. It was a weird sensation for her, doing it whole heartedly, not acting it in front of everybody. At the same time, it felt wrong. It felt really wrong. She wondered why that was.
Syaoran looked at her skeptically. He totally cannot understand the girl. First she was about to cry then a minute later she started laughing so hard. She looked weird; even crazy.
I wonder how long this would last…
Just then the ship started moving. It's starting, the journey of their lives.
*.*.*
Lucy…where are you? What could have we done to make you leave? What could have you done to make you decide to leave?
The same questions were circling around Natsu's head as their group followed Lucy's trail, based on his sense of smell. As far as he could fathom, it was still her tracks they were following through Hargeon.
She had always smelled of lavender and magnolias…
The smell of her air freshener…
"Natsu, what are you thinking of?" Happy asked, seeing that Natsu was in his trying-hard-to-think stage, which was dangerous if they were on a chase. He could collide with something, something like…
"OW!"
…Someone like Gray.
"Hmmm…I'm always right," Happy mumbled to himself as the Natsu and Gray disembarked all over again, with matching fireballs, ice daggers and a few "bird-brains" too. The commotion stopped when Erza shouted something like "I'll kill both of you if we don't find where Lucy is now" or something like that.
They continued running again to the harbor. They were still a few meters from the docks when they heard the worst sound of all…
The sound of a ship leaving…
It sounded similarly to someone saying good bye. Forever.
"LUCY!"
*.*.*
Lucy was looking through the window of her cabin when she had heard someone yell her name. It sounded far away, but she can still make up who those voices belonged to.
She was still contemplating if she did the right thing by leaving her teammates.
But, she thought, I'm trying to save them… save Earthland and Edolas from destruction… Maybe I did the right thing after all.
She was getting bored inside her cabin, so she decided to go out. Wondering where Syaoran-san could be, she followed the directions leading upstairs.
Lucy found her by the deck, enjoying the sea air, although he didn't look like he was really enjoying it.
"What are you thinking?" she surprised him. He was so startled that he almost plunged to his death to the sea.
"What the h-," he cursed. Luckily he didn't fall. "What are you trying to do? Kill me?"
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to-," she tried to apologize, but he waved her off.
"I don't care about you were going to say," he said coldly. "I just wanted to go home, to finish this task of protecting you so that I could already leave."
So that's why Mystogan added the cold part. He was already getting me ready for how would this guy treat me in the course of the mission.
She didn't mind it though. She got used to being acted uncaringly by people, especially her own father. But she had grown up being well loved by the people in her mansion, even though they were not related by blood.
Reluctantly, she stayed beside him. Even though he acted so mean to her, she didn't want to be alone. Then she noticed that he was still wearing his tuxedo, but his sword was already gone.
"Why are you wearing-"
"Wearing a tux?" he predicted her answer. Seeing thew look on her face, he's right. "I was just going on with my wedding when a portal just appeared from the center of the church and dragged me into it."
Lucy winced inwardly. She was already a certified wedding crasher and she felt really bad now. First Gray and Juvia's wedding… now his wedding…
She wasn't even sure if Gray and Juvia postponed their wedding just for her sake.
"I'm sorry-"
"No, you don't have to. Not if you didn't hear the worse. My wife-to-be was dragged here with me but I lost her. And you are the only one who knows where to find her."