Welcome back guys
Chapter 2
So I hope you guys like this story so far
I got some pretty positive reviews
Now there isn't much to say about this
Not really, but I do have some things
Such as OCs coming from my old story and if I will take any OCs
First off, only a few will return from my old story, most shall be left behind, unfortunately
Second of all, I will probably not ask for OCs because I will get a boat load of them and I hate to use to many
(Learned that lesson last time)
Anyways, Lucy is on her way to the lone mountain near a village to stop earthquakes
She'll meet friend and people along the way
Some'll join her
Most'll help out and say goodbye
And this story will be awesome
So let's begin
The moment I set foot outside of Magnolia, however, I met a blue cat face.
"Lucy!" Happy cheered and I stumbled back in shock.
"Happy!" I cried out in shock and he hugged me.
"Gosh, you're big," he murmured into my shirt as his little arms tried to encompass my waist.
"You stupid cat!"
"Sorry, Lushy," he apologized and flew up to be at my head height. "Where are you going?"
"On a job," I answered and he tilted his head.
"But you always go on jobs with us."
"Not anymore," I spoke, my eyes going cold and I could tell he remembered what Natsu and everyone did.
"But, but- You can't leave!" he shouted and ran into me again, hugging me tightly. "You can't leave us!"
"I'm not leaving, Happy. I'm just going on a long job," I explained and he stopped wailing and looked up at me with big watery eyes.
"Really?"
"Yes, really. I just need some time off and alone so Master gave me a pretty easy job that'll give me time to think," I continued explaining and he nodded with a wondering face.
"So... can I come too?"
"Wait, what?"
"I wanna go on the job with you too!"
"Happy, no offense, but I need time alone."
"But what if you get in trouble? What if your magic runs out?" he asked and I thought on that.
He was right, I could need some help and if my magic ran out when I was fighting something or got hurt, then I'd need someone help. Plus, I didn't want to be gone to long and he'd get us there a bit faster.
"Alright, Happy, but you have to promise me you won't whine," I bargained, knowing how childish he got.
He nodded with a big grin and landed on my shoulder.
"Let's go!" he shouted, pointing a finger a head like a guide.
I let out a chuckle and continued onwards towards the train station to catch a train towards the nearest station near the village.
"Alright, which way now?" Happy asked as we stepped outside of the town of Elad.
"Well, there's a map on the back of the job request," I said and started turning it around to find which way to go.
After seeing the map's compass, finding which was north, I started making my way towards the village. We rented a magic mobile and soon we were on the road, going towards the village. The first part of the trip had us going through a forest, driving past tons of oak trees and lots of brush. The road was dirt and the sides were covered in the shadow of the foliage.
Luckily, there was no bandits or monsters in that part of the journey and so we kept going until we came to these rolling green hills. It was beautiful as we drove on the dirt road, going past the occasional patch of trees and large rocks dotting the place. I saw streams and small rivers flowing across the place, trickling down stones and into more parts of streams and rivers.
Later on, we decided to stop at a nice little town full of these houses that weren't built on the hills, but literally built in them. The whole town was spread out, but it had this center with a market and inn. People came and went, buying food and stuff or selling it. We bought ourselves dinner and spent the night at one of the inns. The beds were soft and the blankets were warm.
Happy liked sitting in a bundle of blankets, just curling up in them next to me while I got in my sleepwear and got under the covers. I dare say it was the best night ever, best bed I ever slept in.
However, late at night, the most unexpected thing happened. I was asleep, quietly snoring while Happy purred in his sleep. While we did that, there was a loud crash, apparently, and I woke up. Straightening up, I looked out the window in the hill to see fire spreading. The grass may have been green, but it wasn't wet.
I rushed outside, Celestial Spirit Keys in hand as I summoned the only person, unfortunately, who could deal with this situation.
"Open! Gate of the Water Bearer!"
Aquarius appeared out of the river I sat by, a rush of water coming out from where she appeared.
"Hm, this is actual pleasant," she remarked, sitting in the calm water. "Better than sewers or dirty ponds."
"Aquarius! I need you to put out the-"
"Now I'm going to stop you there!" she stated and I froze, standing a pose with my finger pointed at the raging fire. "Why should I help-"
"There's a fire burning and people in trouble!"
She stared at me before blowing a strand of azure hair out of her face before pulling back her urn. In a loud roar, she thrust it forward and a column of water came out. The fire was doused and I smiled, but a good blob of it doused me.
Aquarius chuckled as I seethed in annoyance and anger, but it disappeared when curiosity took over. A girl stood where the fire had been, now doused in water herself, but she wasn't injured or jarred. The shadows covered her and didn't let me see her appearance, that was until a bunch of people ran up with torches. They were all dressed in these strange robes with armor while the girl was... whoa.
She was at least 18-years-old from what I could tell, being the average height for that age. Her hair was in loose curls and was glowing a faint luminous blue as it churned like water. The irises in her eyes were a light brown that faded into this light blue color, something I've never seen before. Her skin was like a mix of porcelain and light tan, just a bit palish under fair.
She had on a silver two piece that kinda reminded me of lingerie, won't deny that it caught my eye. She had a silver bracer on either forearm with blue detailing. A translucent blue towel thing, a sarong was wrapped around her bottom half, stopping mid thigh. She was barefoot, but around her left ankle was a blue anklet, with a fish, aquarius zodiac sign, and several anchor charms.
"Stay away!" she screeched and twirled, lashing out with this ring of water that pushed the men away.
As they got up, well some of them did, she suddenly changed. A glow enveloped her and in a bright flash she changed, like Erza did when she used her requip magic. Her hair transformed and became a braid, draped over her right shoulder in the color of stone brown. A multicolored flower crown sat on top of her head, and a brown fur corset covered her torso, eh, pushing up her already generous chest rather prominently. She had on a brown leather miniskirt now and her feet plus legs were clad in sandals with many straps, caligae I'm pretty sure. Flower tattoos covered her arms and legs in intricate patterns of black.
With a thrust of her arm, she smashed a fist into the ground. Pillars of stone or metal shot out of the ground and struck the men. A few more fell and a few more stood up, now brandishing bladed or blunt weapons. They charged, the blades glowing with different colors for each. When one guy hit, but missed as she dodged, the ground caught fire since the blade glowed red. Another's blade was glowing green and when he hit, a snare of vines wrapped around a piece of rubble.
"Aquarius!" I shouted and no surprise, she was gone. "Oh come o- argh, Open! Gate of the Maiden!"
Virgo shot out of the ground, chains rattling as they flew around from the shackles she wore.
"Greetings, princess."
"Hi Virgo, uh, I need your help to take out those thugs," I said and pointed at the guys fighting the changing girl.
She nodded and leaped up, then down into the ground like a drill. Holes appeared underneath the girl's assailants and they fell. I smiled and ran over just as the last guy went down the hole, Virgo appearing next to me when I stopped. The girl put up her fists at me, but I raised my hands, Virgo following in a comedic look.
"Whoa! I don't want to hurt you!" I shouted and she narrowed her eyes, obviously not trusting me.
"How do I know it's not a trick?"
"Virgo, go back to the Spirit World," I ordered and the pink Celestial Spirit flashed gold before disappearing. "There, I sent my Celestial Spirit back to her home. Will you trust me now?"
"I've met a lot of people, most of them attack me," she stated, making a sharp, jagged pillar of iron jut out of the ground, stopping near my throat. After I stopped stumbling back, I looked her in the eyes and she continued. "Those that didn't did it later, all of their little stories just lies."
"Well, is there a way to, uh, get your trust?" I asked cautiously, tilting my head forward.
She eyed me and pointed at my pouch of Celestial Spirit Keys.
"Give me those."
"What! But those are my-"
"You want my trust?" she asked and I nodded. "Then give 'em up."
I conceded and threw her the keys, feeling defeated, but I needed to know why there was fight and who she was.
"Hm... how much Jewels you got?"
"Um, enough to get by... you want them, don't you?"
She gestured with her fingers to give me the money and I also conceded, tossing her my wallet. She smiled and looked at me again before pointing at me just in general.
"The top comes off," she stated and my face went red, already knowing where this was going.
"Wh-what?"
"Your shirt, take it off."
"But-"
"Trust?"
"F-fine," I conceded for the third time and reached for my hem, but her eyes went wide in surprise.
"Oh, whoa whoa whoa! I didn't think you'd actually try," she said and made me lower my hands. "Okay, either you're really committed or actually trustworthy. Either way, I don't swing that way."
"Um, okay," I spoke and just then, Happy decided to show up.
"Hey Lucy! Wait, why is everything burnt?"
The girl turned around as we all observed the ash and blackened remains of some market stalls. Smoke rose into the air as the people came out to see.
"Um, we should leave, Happy," I said and started stepping back, but the girl ran up to me.
"Who are you?" she asked, her face up in mine.
"Uh, Lucy Heartfilia, Fairy Tail wizard," I introduced and she tilted her head.
"Fairy Tail? That's a magic guild right?" she asked and I nodded making her look around. "Where are you going?"
"Why do you want to know?" I asked and she started twiddling her fingers.
"Well..." she trailed off and murmured something I couldn't hear so I asked again.
"What?"
"Can I go with you?" she squeaked, her face red out of embarrassment.
"W-why?"
"Because I got nowhere else to go," she answered, waving a hand in the direction of the burned down market. "This is what happens when I wonder, all those people find me."
"But, wait, how is that going to get better?"
"I go back to a guild, I become a legitimate person, and then they can't hurt me because I'm in a guild!" she explained and I raised an eyebrow.
"Um, I don't think it works that way."
"Whatever, lady. Just tell me where you're going!"
"A mountain near a village a bit of a ways off," I replied and she nodded feverishly.
"Can I please go! Please!" she pleaded, all that gung-ho nature gone and replaced with this childish one.
"Alright," I said, stretching the word hesitantly, "we have all are stuff in a magic mobile so I guess you just need to get your stuff and-"
She was gone, running around to where my thumb had been pointing towards. When we got to the vehicle, she all jittery, hopping up and down on a seat inside. I let Happy in and decided she wouldn't be much trouble so I drove off, hopefully leaving without being noticed and getting a fine sent to me.
A couple days passed and we camped out at some places, star gazing and sleeping in sleeping on blankets and stuff. I contemplated on life, thinking about the events at Fairy Tail, getting kicked off by Team Natsu, and just being forgotten. Happy was with me though and that cheered things up, then the girl... well she was odd.
For a girl about to be a young woman, she had the maturity of a young teenager. She was all joyful, but in the jittery, full of energy kind of way. She bounced around all the time when we saw new things to her, but the rest of it she was quiet and just studied her surroundings for any of those thugs that attacked her.
Apparently, her name was Grace Phidel, a powerful magic user with this magic called Elemental Magic. It was pretty strong, I admit, but it wasn't overly, world decimating strong. I saw how she used the water like Juvia, but not as powerfully, I mean she could turn into water, but it wasn't like Juvia's where she was an unstoppable force like a tidal wave. She had the earth powers like Jura, but they weren't as strong as his earth magic. I'm guessing there was a story behind her powers, I could tell by that pain she had when explaining everything.
Anyways, I let her off the questioning and let her ask me about Fairy Tail. I told her everything and she enjoyed it, laughing and giggling at hearing about my antics with Team Natsu, but when I got to my betrayal... she was just angry, furious. Literally, she got up and went into her earth form, as she called it, making boulders around us float up and circle her.
Eventually, we did arrive at the village and here we found a lot of people. They were either living in poverty or had the nice little houses with a bit to get by. Then, there was the house where villager's leader lived. It was just this big, extravagant place that was so out of place, it made me angry. The moment the snotty village leader was just so big headed, like that Everlue creep from my first job at Fairy Tail.
"So, these tremors," I said, cutting him off as he ranted on about his 'success' at leading the villagers.
"Oh, yes, those deadly earthquakes. Already, my paintings and collections have nearly fallen off their shelves. I've already had one vase repaired, but I will not have another!"
I grit my teeth, narrowing my eyes on him in anger.
"What about the village?"
"What? Oh, yes. The market has an enormous crack going through it and I've heard about some poor folks falling into other ones."
He waved that off like it was nothing! The nerve of this, this... Argh!
"So, you just want me to stop the earthquakes?" I asked and he nodded.
That's all I needed to hear and got up to leave. I slammed the door, smiling as I heard him scream as something fell off of a shelf. I got on the driver's seat of the magic mobile next to Grace who had her head resting back against the carriage portion.
"So how'd it go?" she asked and I growled in anger.
"He's a big, fat jerk, literally," I said and started up the car. "The drive to the mountain's pretty short. We should get there before lunch."
She nodded and Happy smiled as he landed in between us.
"Yeah! Let's get a move on team!" he yelled like he was me with Team Natsu.
I laughed and so did Grace as we started driving, going an easier pace than the one Erza did. We drove around this large lake, watching the water glint in the sunlight like it was made of crystals or something. The grass was green and the trees swayed in the cool breeze, not to fast or not to slow, the perfect wind. Our eyes were lain on a mountain stretching high up, large with peaks capped with snow. It was colored a light black, like charcoal, but mixed with stone grey.
We found, however, the strangest thing at the front of it. A stone entrance was already there, this giant gateway, er- more of a wall with rubble that probably was covering the actual entrance. It was these massive ramparts that stood tall with ripped up and burnt banners plus made with the most intricate design ever. The obvious thing to me was that these walls weren't built for show, but more for war, like to fend off invaders.
"Whoa," Grace breathed in awe next to me, marveling in its beauty.
I couldn't deny the beauty myself, staring at the large stone walls colored a grayish black and tinted with a slight green hue. To get into the mountain, Grace moved the stones with her magic and we just strolled in. I guess it was fate or something because the moment we set foot inside of the mountain built fortress, the whole place shook. Massive boulders and stalactites fell fell from the ceiling, crashing below us as we walked on a wide, but long walkway made of the same stone.
"Whoa!" we screamed, this time not in awe, but in terror.
"That was shaky!" Happy yelled as he grabbed me, using his Aero magic to keep me steady as Grace got a good foothold with her own magic.
"That was really shaky," I added and looked down the path.
It had this unique layout, the walkway leading towards a massive area. There were piles of rubble dotting the place and what looked like tattered rugs of velvet on the ground, but it was all faded and covered in a thick layer of dust. A stone staircase went up to the wall where the walls and ramparts were, making a second level. There was a balcony overlooked a large staircase winding down towards... somewhere. We walked over, cautiously, towards the other end of the area and our eyes went wide at seeing what was below.
Seas of golden... everything stretched on and on! Most of it was gold coins, but the rest and absolute rest was made of golden artifacts, all of it making the dark place glow with an astonishing, dim yellow tint. I looked up to see a massive stalactite with gold seams swirling around it, glowing slightly with a symbol embedded in it. It was a star, swords inside of it all pointed out towards the five points of the star.
"Can you find the source of the earthquakes with your magic?" I asked my new friend, turning to look at Grace and she nodded, putting her hand on the ground.
A quick quake rattled us again as we waited and she flicked open her eyes, nodding.
"That way," she said, pointing outwards across the sea of treasure, "something out there, buried under the gold."
"Let's find it!" Happy shouted and grabbed my shoulders as Grace began to glow.
Now my friend as in a white and silver leotard that pretty much matched the one Mirajane wore in her Halphas form during her Satan Soul magic. Two small angel wings had appeared one her back, delicate and beautiful while her hair floated above her head. A silver band was around her head, with an opal in the very front of it. She had white gloves, and white ballet shoes that were donned on their respective places.
In this new form, which I guess was air, she could fly and together, we made it across the golden sea. I could tell by Happy's red face and bitten lip that he was refraining from whining about me being fat, which I wasn't, and this just made me stifle some laughter.
"We're here," Grace finally said and landed us on a large outcropping in the gold hoard. I assume it was once a building, but now it was flooded with golden treasure.
"It's coming from around here?"
"No, specifically from here," she said and tapped her foot on the stone. "Or, at least from underneath this."
"I'll take a look," Happy volunteered and leaped off the building, reactivating his magic to fly below.
We sat down and waited... and waited... and waited. It was a long wait and an hour later, I had, had Virgo make us a small camp. We sat around a campfire, making smores while waiting. Happy was pretty disappointed when he came back and sat down on the log Virgo had brought.
"I didn't find anything except gold," he said, obviously sad he didn't get the job done.
"Well, let's take a look ourselves," I said and walked towards the ledge, "just fly me down."
"Okay, Luce," he said and obliged, but just like the nagging feeling in the back of my head thought, he started struggling half way down.
"Uh, Lucy?"
"Don't say it!"
"So, what if I said I was about to run out of magic?"
My eyes widened as his wings glowed and poofed out of existence. We plummeted into the ocean of gold and I groaned in pain, feeling the coins dig into my back. Luckily, it was only coins we hit and not some swords sticking out or large chalices or anything else.
"You stupid cat!" I shouted as Grace hopped down, or more of floating in her air form.
"Sorry, Lush-"
He stopped as the gold began moving, flowing down like a waterfall over the rest of the gold. We, all three of us, looked underneath the large building, pillars holding it up to see something moving below. Crimson scales appeared and our eyes widened as a massive eyelid twitch. It was hidden mostly under the gold hoard, but even Happy could tell it was massive. I made a 'shush' motion with my finger, pressing one on my lips before pointing at a pillar to hide behind. A guttural noise came from it, probably let out air from its nostril and it sounded reptilian in nature.
We all followed my plan and watched as the beast shifted some more, gold coins pouring over gold coins, treasure clanking and crashing as diamonds and/or other jewels fell. We looked on the other pillar and saw the golden heap about... a really long ways off. I still remembered seeing Acnologia on Tenrou Island in terror, seeing his size to be at least a good chunk of the island. This thing, whatever it was, was way larger, I could just see by how its barbed tail moved from under the gold and waved a bit before settling back down.
Comparing to Tenrou Island, it could probably encircle half the island and that as only his length. What other sizes did it have besides height? How strong was it? What power did it have? Was I going to survive this? That last one got answered when Happy slipped on some loose gold coins. I managed to grab him, but it was already to late. The creature heard and moved, whatever it was had a serpentine-like neck, raising it up to smash against the stone roof above. It didn't faze as the entire place shook from the impact, stone bits and dust dropping down. A clawed hand burst near us and gripped a stone column, crushing it slightly as it was used to pull itself out of the gold. More of it appeared, large limbs, muscular body, the barbed tail, and... giant leathery wings.
We were standing next to a dragon, a very, very large dragon.
Cliffhanger...
So, sorry about that
Anyways, we'll see the conclusion to this or maybe in two more chapters
But on that note
Lucy just met a new friend
Lucy has Happy on her side
And Lucy just found a dragon
Hint: It's not a friendly dragon at all
Now, let me tell you this
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So with great sincerity
Lord Revan Flame, signing off