Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Chapter 5: Riding Wind On A Nice Night
The next night, Lucy had been looking at jobs on the request board while the Fairy Tail guild was still partying on about Lisanna. She ignored the blaring music and laughter, focusing on her training with Sting, and he had instructed her to find a specific job request that involved taking down a powerful criminal who had been committing many heinous crimes.
This criminal was a woman, and she had been labeled as a terror in battles from the rumors swirling around. Anyone who had ever encountered her did not have the chance of escaping with their life intact, and her level of power was said to be pretty high. With only eight spells of Water Magic, especially since they were chain spells that required buildup, Lucy knew she and Sting couldn't handle a job like that.
She didn't know what Sting was thinking when he had brought up his plan about taking down this woman, but he probably wanted Sabertooth and himself to get some great recognition out of it. Sting's pride always made him think that he could handle anything, sometimes getting a little too overconfident, but Lucy had always been able to find herself giggling slightly or smiling at his determination.
Much to Lucy's surprise, however, her brown eyes looked up and down the request board to find absolutely nothing involving this woman. There wasn't a single flyer that talked about her, and that made the blonde mage wonder if this criminal had been captured already. Either way, it sure was a letdown for Lucy to not conveniently find the job that she was searching for. Wanting to ease the blow of that disappointment, Lucy went over to the bar for a drink.
She could see that Mirajane had a happy smile on her face while she was using a white rag to clean a brown wooden beer mug, mostly because she was looking over at a table where Natsu was tickling Lisanna to make the white-haired mage laugh, and Lucy really didn't feel like having any say on that subject. She wanted to move on with her life, meaning her heart had to sail away from Magnolia like she did on the S.S. Aqua.
"Hi, Mira. I'll have my usual sugary tea, please." Lucy told the barmaid while resting her head down on the counter and sighing in a depressed manner, as she took a seat on the far left bar stool.
"Coming right up, Lucy! You've been alone for weeks now, and I know what you need to get over Natsu! You need a boyfriend!" Mira replied happily, as she had been seeing Lucy being single for a while with nobody to show her some love and affection.
Lucy didn't want to move fast like that after only a month because she knew that if she did then she wouldn't truly be happy. If a couple had nothing but love, they would eventually get bored of it and things would come crashing down in the end. Starting a new relationship after only a month would be more like revenge, and not mostly romance. Lucy wanted to take things at a slow pace, and time would eventually send a decent guy her way. Just like with using one spell at a time and developing it in a slow and steady manner, passion took patience.
"Not right now, Mira. I'll just keep to myself, and wait for life to work things out. There's no need for me to rush, you know. I just have to take things one step at a time, and let my heart heal." Lucy replied calmly, as Mira handed her the cup of sugary tea, and she began to drink from the cup.
Looking back at the request board for a moment, Lucy's brown eyes noticed a job needing to be done in Castelia Town. She blinked her eyes twice to make sure she wasn't seeing things, and she blushed slightly when she realized her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. That's the town of business where the Sabertooth guild and Sting Eucliffe could be found, right?
Still, it was kind of late at night. Would Sting be ok with Lucy going all the way across the sea to visit him, instead of asking if he was ready to go find that criminal like he planned? The job could be good for both of them, though. Sting and Lucy had never really gotten to have a normal talk to know each other, and what's a better way than finding a place that's comfortable for both of them?
Lucy finished drinking her tea, and she got up from the barstool she sat on to check her appearance in the reflection of a nearby glass window. She was wearing a simple violet shirt and a lavender miniskirt to match. Her hair was in a side ponytail on the right side, and a purple bow was on the other side of her head. She looked quite dark for the night, don't you think?
She walked over to the request board to examine the flyer mentioning the job needing to be done in Castelia Town, sitting at the bottom-left corner of the request board by itself. Lucy unpinned the piece of paper from the board, and began to read the request. Would this task help Lucy get stronger, and would this job be just as impressive as catching someone who was presumed to be an S-Class criminal?
When her brown eyes carefully scanned the flyer, looking hopeful that this job wouldn't be too easy or too difficult, Lucy noticed that this job request had been dated to have been made earlier this morning. Clearly, this was just a recent problem that needed to be taken care of. Lucy did see this as a window of opportunity, however, and this job would definitely help her and Sting have an activity to do together.
Apparently, there had been a report about a criminal robbing the bank of Castelia and evading the cops. She was said to be a pretty dangerous vixen with quick speed, but that would be no problem for Lucy at all. The Aqua Ball spell could confuse the criminal while the blasts would stop her from running, and that would give Lucy the perfect chance to strike.
She couldn't wait to do this job, since it would allow her to see Sting, and Lucy happily giggled while having confidence in her brown eyes. She ran out of the guild with the flyer in her hands, blushing a light shade of pink, and she didn't even notice that she had accidentally tripped Natsu when he tried to get up from the table he sat at with Lisanna. Lucy could feel something good coming her way, and she was going to reach that reward.
Since the trains were inactive at this time of night, Lucy ran down to Magnolia's Harbor as fast as she could and smelled the salty air while getting on to the S.S. Aqua that always left for the town of Castelia at 10 o'clock at night. She had taken notice of her running speed increasing by a lot more than it was last month, due to her training with Sting, and Lucy definitely had to thank him in a great way for that.
She stayed in the same room that was now reserved for her, since she had now traveled enough times on the boat to be seen as a regular passenger, and Lucy enjoyed seeing the food cart restocked with dinner items now. There was steak, burgers, fish sticks, hot dogs, chicken tenders, a plate of spaghetti with meatballs, and there was also a plate with ten slices of cheese pizza on it. Quite the luxury treatment for a passenger, was it not?
While Lucy took the plate of pizza slices and placed it on the bed, she also thought about the spell book. Her eight spells of Water Magic were pretty powerful after they had been used in succession, and they could also help each other out like they had done back in the temple of Snowpoint Town. Lucy saw these spells as valuable, and they even powered up the water attacks of Aquarius when she had been summoned.
The blonde mage reached inside her brown purse to find a somewhat shocking surprise. Her cerulean blue spell book had turned emerald green, and it was now pulsating with an emerald green glow. Lucy opened up the book to see green beams of light shining from some of the pages, and the green text informed her that this was a new type of magic that had been given to her.
This was Wind Magic, a type of magic that had spells made from the air, and it could mainly be used for fast attacks. The aerial moves were also quite good, from what Lucy had seen in tournaments other than the Grand Magic Games, and Lucy wondered what this new Wind Magic would be like. Would the spells have added effects, and would they even be powerful?
She shouted with a confident facial expression, strength in her brown eyes while she looked at the porthole before turning her attention to the first two lines in green text, "I call upon thee, the first spell, Aerial Disc!"
This first spell of Wind Magic caused Lucy to shoot out three green buzz saw-like blades from her left hand, and they flew out of the porthole of her cabin. Her three projectiles sliced through a rock in the ocean, cutting it into three pieces, and three miniature emerald green blasts of energy transpired on the ocean water. The noise alerted some passengers, but the captain didn't care since the blasts hadn't been aimed at the S.S. Aqua.
She had tried using the other spells, but they wouldn't work for some reason. It was most likely that the spells were readable, but not ready for use yet. Aside from that letdown, Lucy was happy that she would get to see Sting. As she curiously looked at the pages with words in emerald green text, Lucy also noticed that there were unreadable words in pale green text. Those spells would have to be unlocked later on, and they would probably be powerful.
As Lucy prepared to close her spell book that was now emerald green, she gasped in slight surprise from seeing a white card fall out of the book and softly land on the floor. She picked it up to see that the words were written in the emerald green text of the strange language, a language that seemed different from the blue text, and her cocoa brown eyes scanned the card to slowly read the message.
"The book master's creativity does not lie only in chain spells, but every type of magic can create various moves. Take advantage of this malleability." Lucy read to herself in a calm manner, before smiling a bit at the advice from the emerald green book. Was it somehow sensing what she needed?
45 minutes later…
The ship had docked in the Castelia Harbor, and Lucy quickly disembarked. She stepped onto the dock, and looked at the tall skyscrapers behind her. Many people wearing business suits and carrying briefcases passed her by without saying a word, prompting Lucy to wonder if Sting actually did live in such a busy town like this. She also needed to find him, which would most likely be a problem in a large town like this one.
A wooden sign nearby told Lucy that this was known as Prime Pier, one of the four ocean piers in the town of Castelia. Lucy really needed directions to places in this town to start her search for Sting, and she also had to take care of a criminal here. As she drifted out of her thoughts, the sight of smoke coming from one of the dimly lit streets caught her attention. What was going on?
Lucy thought that it was just some robbers setting off a bomb to break into a bank, but that smoke came from Narrow Street where the cafes were located. She couldn't smell any burnt food, but Lucy's brown eyes widened in shock upon seeing a white blast of light fill the sky. That magic obviously belonged to Sting, and more explosions kept transpiring. As Lucy saw more white blasts occur from that street, she became concerned for her friend. Sting was probably fighting a horde of enemies, and he may have needed someone to back him up. Lucy ran all the way up to the Oceanfront Road, and went to the nearest left street.
She arrived the dimly lit street to find a crowd of people circled around something interesting, and Lucy pushed her way past a few artists and businessmen to see Sting panting heavily while he was facing off against a voluptuous woman who had a pink aura surrounding her hands. She wore a pink T-shirt with some light pink spandex shorts, and her high heels were pink as well. She didn't appear to have been hurt at all by Sting's attacks, and this woman giggled a bit before she spoke.
"Sweetie, you're the weakest dragon slayer that I've ever seen. It's quite sad that you can't land a hit on me, especially since you said you're the guild master of Sabertooth. My Psychic Magic can't be broken, and you are weak against the mighty Kamira Koruru." The woman told Sting with a derogatory look on her face, her green eyes filled with flirtatiousness while she prepared to attack.
Sting was in his Dragon Force mode with White Drive activated, but he couldn't even charge up Holy Ray fast enough before Kamira fired a pink beam of energy from her left hand and struck him directly with it. A pink explosion occurred, and Sting screamed in more pain as Kamira made more pink energy beams twist and levitate around him to deliver her strikes. Every explosion was music to her ears, and she laughed evilly.
The white dragon slayer responded in a frustrated manner, narrowing his blue eyes, "You haven't won this yet! This fight is not over at all, and I'm gonna take down a criminal like you! No one beats me, you got that?!"
Despite him being serious with those words, Sting looked a tad annoyed when Kamira began to laugh. She really doubted that he could beat her, since she had actually been using her Psychic Magic to make his attacks miss the entire time, but she did think that he was a bit cute. Kamira smirked seductively while walking towards Sting and putting on red lipstick, preparing to end this battle with a Kiss of Death while she now moved her hands in a psychic manner to restrict his movements as she made him float towards her to lessen the distance between them.
As she leaned in to deliver her deadly kiss, Kamira was suddenly struck in the stomach by what appeared to be a spinning green bird. It was actually Lucy's second spell known as Aerial Piercer, and this spell allowed Lucy to create green birds out of wind before commanding them to strike an opponent. The lone projectile sent Kamira flying backwards, before piercing in through her stomach and out through her back like a powerful sword. The green bird created an emerald green blast of energy when it hit the ground, and Kamira seemed peeved off while looking around to see who her attacker was.
Sting was now released from Kamira's magic, and he turned around to see an emerald green glow coming from a book of the same color. Lucy had obviously taken a job that involved handling the only real criminal in Castelia Town right now, and Sting quickly fixed his hair because he thought she came here for him. She had also unlocked Wind Magic now, making Sting feel quite proud.
Kamira told Lucy in a stern tone, looking irritated by the presence of the blonde girl, "Well, look what we have here. I didn't expect the cute dragon slayer to have a girlfriend. I suppose that I'll have to defeat you, too."
She fired a pink beam of Psychic Magic from her left hand, making it curve to hit Lucy from her right, but the blonde female narrowed her brown eyes and activated the third spell of Wind Magic. This move was known as Tornado Kick, and it simply caused Lucy's left foot to kick Kamira's attack into the air. The side effect of this attack was that it created a green tornado of wind that went straight up into the sky, and it exploded into a large emerald green blast of Wind Magic. That was most likely meant to be used on airborne foes, to be honest.
Lucy's spell book continued to glow with emerald green lights coming from the words on the pages, and she narrowed brown her eyes in a stern manner when Kamira growled angrily at the fact that someone was meddling with her plan of finishing off Sting. A pink aura surrounded her hands, and she ran towards Lucy to finish her off with a few powerful punches.
However, Lucy quickly activated the fourth spell of Wind Magic to end this battle. It was known as Cloudy Crush, and this move caused the five clouds in the sky to spiral around in the air above the battlefield. Nothing seemed to happen at first, but then everyone felt the powerful winds coming down on them. Kamira gasped in shock, as she was suddenly lifted into the air, and five green tornadoes formed around from the wind. Before she could even react, the tornadoes struck her simultaneously while creating an extremely large emerald green explosion in the sky.
The large spherical blast provided the perfect cover for Lucy to escape, and she didn't even notice that Karen emerged from the shadow of the blast with her reward money. Her heart was beating wildly, as she had ran down to Prime Pier and stopped to pant and catch her breath. Had she truly felt jealous now because a criminal thought Sting was cute and was about to share a kiss with him? Lucy put her hands over her eyes, and fell to her knees while crying softly. She had humiliated herself in front of Sting by going into overprotective mode, and she should've just let him handle it.
While she let tears go down her face, Lucy felt someone pat her shoulders gently. She slowly turned around to see Sting standing behind her, and he didn't look embarrassed that a girl stepped in to help him take down a criminal. He was actually proud that she was getting stronger, and Lucy had technically handled a big job by herself.
"Don't cry, Lucy. You have no reason to be upset because you just stepped in to save me. You sure acted like we were a couple, though. Hands off your man, huh?" Sting told her with a smile while chuckling a little.
"You've been there for me a lot, so I felt like I needed to be there for you. Sting, you saved me from loneliness. Not that you filled the void Natsu created in my heart, but you've been a good friend to me." Lucy told him while wiping away her tears and looking into Sting's eyes.
Something about his blue eyes was so appealing to Lucy. They were like a beautiful blue sea, and she felt like they were entrancing to her. She blushed a light shade of pink, and Lucy's heart palpitated wildly when she rested her head on Sting's shoulder. He really was a comforting guy, giving her support when she needed it, and Sting had really valued her as a teammate.
He ran his fingers through her hair for a few seconds, his nose taking in the scent of her strawberry vanilla shampoo. Sting sniffed her for a few more minutes, and he smiled while looking into her eyes that were brown like delicious chocolate. She was such a nice girl, wanting to be by the side of such a confident guy, and Sting really had to wonder how Natsu could kick her off the team without even knowing what her future had been holding for her.
The white dragon slayer and the stellar mage both looked into each other's eyes, smiling a bit, and then Lucy had to break their hug to go back home on the S.S. Aqua. She boarded the ship with happiness in her brown eyes, glad that a guy really valued her efforts, and Lucy waved goodbye to Sting before the white door rose up from the water to be closed. Lucy didn't see this as a night of separation, since she would get to see him on the next day.
How was the 5th chapter? Did you like it? Sting and Lucy are building their chemistry, and our female protagonist now has Wind Magic! Sorry if four spells may seem a bit rushed, but there will be enemies in this story that can block even seven spells with ease. Lisanna and Natsu will get their parts in the next chapter, and Karen gives Lucy a little reward for reaching the 2nd type of magic. What is it, you ask? Standby for the update!