A/N: Hello hello! Happy Monday and welcome to Chapter 6!
School is starting back again on Auguest 22nd for me. I think Mondays definitely work the best for me. And I do like uploading on Mondays since most people hate Mondays xD SO seeing an update may make you happy for like the amount of time it takes for you to read the chapter.
If anything, I'll update you guys on my schedule. Without further ado, here's the chapter~
A young girl is happily roaming the gardens, jumping and laughing of joy. It was the only thing she had asked for in a while. She had wants to spend quality time with both her parents since most days her father was a busy business man and it was usually her mother that spent time with.
"Lucy, dear, will you come here? I have someone to introduce you to." Hearing the last part, the girl known as Lucy, rushed to where her mother stood from her chair on the balcony.
Walking up the four short steps, she noticed something behind her mother's back. Her father sat on a chair across from the table decorated with finger sanwiches, small cakes, tarts, and tea. He continues reading the daily newspaper even as Lucy walked up to her mother, questioning as to what her mother had wanted.
As Lucy stood there, she can feel her father's gaze hiding from behind the newspaper, trying hard to not let Lucy know he was watching.
"WHAT is it Mommy?"
"Close your eyes, sweetheart... Alright, you can open them now."
-GASPS-
"Oh Mommy, thank you."
Lucy greeted her new friend, "Hello, how do you do? My name is Lucy." She smiled and smiled even wider when she received a shy toothy smile in return.
LUCY... do you remember? You were always there when I needed you... but I couldn't be there for you when you needed me...
Flames are everywhere. They surround the little girl under the table, trembling, sobbing. Scared, Lucy dare to not move. Because if she did, she'll get burn...
So this time, Ill be there for you... Lucy, my love, my angel. Luce, my best friend, my everything...
Even though it was only the first week of school, Lucy found herself becoming more tired each day as her Teachers from different classes start to go into more depth and detail on what is required in order to pass the class.
The class she worried most about was mathematics. Mathematics, unlike other classes that frequently has classmates partnering up for each other, as the semester drags on, tends to become more strict and many people start to show their dark side.
Their dark side meaning the ones who struggle with math, takes the easy way out by seeking out students who did well on their homework and tests. Lucy just hope she wouldn't be caught with people like those.
On top of that, Lucy had to also worry about finding the guy who dropped the Fairy Tail key chain. She didn't have time to think about the fire lab experiments that will be going on until next week.
Sure she wasn't able to get a good look at the guy, but she was hoping that if she keep going to the same shuttle at around the same time she met him, then she would run into him. But, she hasn't. In addition, even though she didn't know what he looked like, but she knew what he sounded like. However, she was growing more anxious and nervous as the days increase.
After Levy reveal to her what the keychain was and how precious it was, Lucy started doing research on it.
The first model of the keychain was first created centuries ago, back to the beginning of when that particular guild was created. The particular design was created by the first master of the guild, Mavis Vermillion whose motto was basically 'If Fairies had tails or not' and later was adapted to the name Fairy Tail. It was around the third master who taught the guild and the mages about the importance of family and comrades. Fairy Tail is family. Fairy Tail are full of comrades who'll stick by each other's side no matter what the circumstance or situations.
As Lucy delve deeper into her research, she found herself becoming more and more interested in the guild called Fairy Tail and the idea that mages used to live so long ago. During Intelligence class when the teacher went over details about the time period before human population, Lucy paid extra close attention. Afterwards, Lucy would keep doing her own research on the mages time period. She could feel herself become obsess with it.
Even when she's trying to write chapters to her novel, at some point, it spins into a whole other direction, one including mages and guilds and dragons.
It had been weeks since she last encounter the boy who dropped the keychain. During the time, Lucy began thinking.
What if it wasn't even his keychain to begin with?
What if he just happened to be passing by and hadn't dropped anything?
What if the keychain was meant for her? Like the world was giving her a hint at something...
Lucy had begun realizing that if she hadn't met the boy seeking for his missing keychain the past few weeks, then maybe she wasn't ever going to meet him again. And so today, she'll be using the keychain for herself.
She easily loses her key to her room since it wasn't attatch to anything. So they keychain and the key is a perfect combination together.
After all, finder keepers, loser weepers.
Lucy locked the door to her room with her newly decorated key and stuff it into the hidden pocket of her backpack. The girls had told each other on their group message that they would be late to breakfast today since for personal reasons, Homeroom class was cancelled. Which meant most of them will be sleeping in.
Most of them; but not Lucy. She's planning on getting a head start at studying for all her classes since midterm comes around in three more weeks.
Like any functional person, Lucy need her every morning strawberry smoothie top with freshly cut strawberries and handwhip creme. Luckily she had become friends with the chefs at the cafeteria on morning duty so she was able to drink her smoothie every morning without fail.
She had actually been thinking what she would like for breakfast this morning. Yesterday she had rice and the day before she had some. As Lucy gets on the shuttle, she continues thinking about what kind of breakfast she should have.
A person sat beside her without asking for permission. Distracted from her thoughts, Lucy looked around to see if the shuttle had filled up with passengers without her noticing. Nope. It was just her and the person next to her and the driver.
Lucy hadn't actually gotten a good at the person before she turns and prepares to tell them off when she stopped before she could begin.
"G-Gray!"
"Yo!" Gray draped his arms on the ledge of the seat nonchalantly, giving Lucy a grin.
"What are you doing here?!"
"Can you please not yell so loud in the morning?" Gray paused, "And I got on the last stop. I was just wondering around when I say you and thought 'I need to go scare Lucy. That'll be funny.'" Gray burst out laughing at his own words. Lucy followed along, laughing as well until they made eye contact and Lucy's fast got serious.
"It wasn't funny."
Gray stopped laughing to look at her.
"Aww Lucy, do you get scared easily?"
"Dont." PUNCH "Do." PUNCH "Again." PUNCH
PUNCH
PUNCH
"OW! OKAY OKAY STOOOPPP."
Lucy punched him on the shoulder lighter than the punches to emphasize her words.
" Do I make myself clear?"
Gray gripped his shoulder, nodding repeatedly until Lucy turned away from him, huffing.
"And I wasn't scared. I was just suprised. I was in the middle of preparing to tell you off if it wasn't you."
"Why? Are you claustrophobic too?"
"No, it's just that it was strange someone would sit next to me when there are so many seats available."
Gray didn't say anything back and Lucy didn't bother to look at Gray again. Instead, she enjoyed the freshness of the morning and the soft beam of sunlight that shine on her between the trees' leaves cracks.
It wasn't until the reached their stop and stepped off the shuttle that Gray asked Lucy where she was heading so early in the morning.
"To the library. Might as well get ahead of everybody."
"Nerd." Gray stifled a laugh.
"And you? Where are you going so early?"
"I'm meeting a friend who missed the first couple of weeks of the semester. He's barely just got settled down. So I was going to show him around a bit."
"Cool. See you later."
"Yeah. See ya."
The two parted their ways as Lucy walked towards the library. What she liked about the academy's library was that it was open 24 hours. It never closes! Lucy suspects it's for those students who takes studying very seriously and would need to find refuge in a quiet place without disturbing anyone and free wifi.
In addition, Lucy loved how she could eat in the library unlike the public libraries and her middle school ones.
Finding a suitable seat and sitting down, Lucy opened her backpack and began spreading out the things that she needed. Textbook, pencil case, notebook, earphones... was that it?
Lucy shrug and plugged the white earphones into her phone and began playing music so she could get into her studying mood.
If you're lost you can look
And you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you
I'll be waiting
Time after time
This song by Cyndi Lauper had been on repeat in her mind for a while and yesterday, she finally downloaded the song, succumbing to it. Since then, she's been playing the song over and over again.
Lucy studied until it was time for her first class to begin.
"I can't believe you made me come all the way over here just to pick you up." Gray grumbled. His eyes were barely open. He was able to wake up briefly with his encounter with Lucy but afterwards, he yawned every ten seconds.
He had just been wondering around for a morning stroll to wake himself up before heading to the front of the academy to pick his friend up when he noticed Lucy getting on the shuttle to somewhere. Deciding that he needed something to wake him up, he knew Lucy's loud voice would do the trick...
And it did. He was more awake than ever when he was with her and ten minutes off the shuttle. Gray almost invited her to come with him since he knew he'd be practically sleep walking in the state he was in, but he stopped himself.
"Don't get so worked up Gray. It's not even that early. Wouldn't you be in class at this time if it wasn't cancelled...?"
"Yea yea... HEY! Why am I the one getting lectured? I should be lecturing you, baka." Gray flicked his finger on his friend's forehead.
"HEY! What are you doing, Gray you bastard!" His friend held his forehead protectively, smoothing out the red bump that was steadily forming.
"Tch you wanna fight?" Gray grabbed the bottom of his shirt, already lifting it halfway when a hand knocked his head to the side.
"OWWW!" Gray and his friend said simultaneously.
"The hell? What was that for, Jellal?!"
"Glad to see you so energetic this morning, Gray, Natsu."Jellal straigtened his uniform before staring at the two.
"Ha... Good morning Jellal!" Gray's friend, Natsu said, bowing slightly.
"Good morning to you too, Natsu. Now mind telling me why you were so loud? People are trying to either sleep or study. Please be respective of your voices and keep it low."
"Y-Yes!"
Gray spoke, standing straightly.
"Well?"
"Gray flicked me on the forehead. He started first." Natsu pouted, crossing his arms.
"That's cause he was being stupid." Gray replied.
"What did you sa-"
"Stop it this instant! I won't tolerate fighting on campus especially between you two since it always gets out of hand."
"Hey, who made you the boss?" Natsu glared, not liking that his friend was trying to tell him what to do. Trying.
"I'm the student council president. So I do have the duty to protect the peace on campus." Jellal said proudly.
"That's what he said, but he did it cause he was trying to show off to this girl he li-"
"Shush Gray! That's personal matters. You promised you wouldn't say anything, didn't you?"
"Hey I want to fight too!"
"Shut up Natsu." Now it was Jellal and Gray who was in sync with each other.
Suddenly, the school bell rang, signaling for the first period of the day.
Gray and Jellal stood far apart, still glaring at each other. However, Jellal managed to take a deep breath and regain his posture. As for Gray, his shirt had gone somewhere and he was busily looking for it.
"That was for the first period. I'll have to go now. Natsu, are you coming to class today?"
Natsu waved him off, heading the opposite direction.
It was true that he had missed the first couple of weeks of school, but it was all excused absents. He had let the school know he wouldn't be able to attend classes during those weeks. It was an easy task, after all, he knew people who was in charge of the school.
Originially his plan was to start attending classes after midterms, but he found himself not being able to stay away from campus especially after his visit to administration a couple of weeks ago.
He had taken the shuttle to the quad since he didn't want to walk in the night, when he saw a beautiful long hair, blonde girl. He wasn't able to take his eyes off her even when the shuttle stopped and he got off. He somehow managed to keep himself from running into her and instead bump her shoulder slightly and muttered a sorry before heading off. She didn't look at him when she said it was alright. It broke his heart a little that she didn't. Maybe she would've have recognized and maybe she wouldn't have and that would have hurt him a lot more. But either way, he wanted to get a look at her. It has been years since he last saw her. He longed to look into her brown chocolatey eyes again.
But alas, she didn't look at him and proceed to zip up her backpack. Of course it's not like he left her standing there alone in the dark night either. He kept his eyes on her until the shuttle disappeared up hill.
Then he turned around heading to the destination he was going to. All the while in his mind, he couldn't help but be giddy that he had just met her and knowing she had his keychain in her possession. Natsu didn't plan it. Oh no. He was too lost in his daze of seeing her again that he had accidently dropped it. He did mentally panicked a bit but he knew that she would take care of it for him until they meet again.
And it would serve as a good excuse to talk to her.
Thinking about that night again, Natsu couldn't help but search for her the next few weeks. But to his disappointment, he hadn't been able to see her again.
That's when he decided to attend classes earlier than he had expected. With midterms around the corner, he would need a lot of help to pass it. And so he's prepared himself to attend class and finally, finally, finally meet... Lucy again.
A/N: I wonder if you guys know where this story is heading? xD
And thanks for those who reviewed! Reading it makes me want to write a longer chapter. Thank you!
See you next Monday.
