Chapter 15

It was finally Friday 4.30, Lucy's stomach had healed incredibly fast according to Wendy, she now had her stitches out and a small faint outline of a scar was only noticeable if you looked rather closely at her stomach. She was wearing a pair of red denim shorts, with a white tank top, although you could see the outline of something on her ribs. Her hair was up into a high pony tail and her chocolate brown eye's glistened with excitement.

Just like she promised, everyone was waiting at the train station for the group of high school kids to get there so they could head off to the Heartfillia mansion for a nice weekend break. She had packed some of her things but had a feeling that the mansion still held a lot of her old stuff. She hoped her favourite bikini that was stored there still fit her. It was said to be a rather warm weekend for mid October.

She suddenly felt an arm slung around her shoulder and she looked up seeing her older brother smirking, "Back to the mansion huh? I haven't been there since Mother was alive. I wonder if it's changed at all" Lucy gave a smile, "when I was there last year, most things had been covered over with white sheets, dad's office was still the same but I never got to check out the rest of the house. The gardens had still been tended to which was a good thing." Laxus gave a nod to his younger sister.

"Just please don't tell me your going to be cooped up in that Library all weekend, we are going to have some fun!" Cana spoke as she drank some of her whisky she had brought with her, the guild gave a sigh she never stopped drinking! "of course I won't be in there the whole weekend, just most likely before I go to bed. I've given the master permission to use the office as his own office as he still has some paperwork to go over because of all the destroyed stuff and complaints."

The whole guild was there minus the high schoolers which would be showing up at any time, They had all bought the tickets for the 6, she went back deep in thought when suddenly someone hugged her from behind, she could smell the burned ash on him, " We're here Luce!" Lucy giggled and handed him a train ticket and his travel bag. He had some how moved into her apartment with her and Levy over the past couple of weeks so he had most of his gear at her place.

"Thanks, Well time to go party all weekend!" everyone raised their fists into the air just as the train pulled in. They all got onto the train and it set off heading for the Heartfillia mansion.

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Standing in front of the Heartfillia grounds, most of the guild members had their mouths hanging down to the ground, the master had passed out from shock, Erza went into a state of bliss like the last few times she had been here. Ino, Sasuke and Xavier was all gaping, "You own ALL! Of this?" Lucy chuckled and nodded scratching her cheek, "Yeah, thank god I have a lot of rooms in the place for all of us in there, just think if you did want to move the guild.. This could be the perfect place." people began silently whispering that Lucy should be the next guild master, which only made her laugh as Natsu finally recovered from his motion sickness and wrapped an arm around her waist, "Well are you going to give everyone the grand tour and show us to our rooms so we can have some fun?"

Lucy gave a nod and began leaving the large group of people towards the mansion which they all followed, as they got closer to the gates a small woman sweeping the path looked up and then ran to Lucy crying. It was one of the maids that use to work at the mansion before she had ran away from home. "Miss Lucy's returned!" Lucy gave a small laugh as she leaned over to give the small woman a hug as all the other servents did the same.

"Welcome back Miss. Lucy!" "Hope your studies are going well!" "I'll whip up a feast tonight for everyone to celebrate!" they all shouted, the guild again was shocked apart from team natsu to see on how much the girl was loved at the place. "Thank you, could you please give me a hand showing my friends around and to their rooms please? Did you ready a games room like I said in the last letter I sent?" they all nodded and Lucy turned to her friends. "Alright lets go!"

Just as everyone was walking in Master Makarov walked up to Lucy's side, "this certaintly is a impressive place my child, I thank you deeply for allowing us to use it for a vacation. What ever damage is done I will make sure they either fix it or pay for the damage." Lucy just gave a smile to the master, "so long as they don't destroy mama's garden then I'm not too bothered." they all walked in they all noticed the giant staircase splitting off into the east wing and the west wing of the mansion, and in the middle was a large portrait of Jude and Layla, Along with a child version of Lucy sat in a chair holding her Michelle doll. "wow Lu-chan your mother was beautiful! I can see where you got your looks from." Lucy gave a smile at Levy and nodded.

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It took over an hour to show everyone around the mansion and to what rooms they would be staying in, The thunder tribe was sharing a room, Team Shadow had theirs along with Gajeel, Strauss siblings was sharing, Cana and Gildarts, master had his own room, the new team with Ino, Xavier and Sasuke was sharing. Erza and Gray was sharing in Lucy's old room while Lucy and Natsu had the masters bedroom, Lucy had sorted threw things in her old room and placed them in the masters with help from Team Natsu, she didn't want to change too much of her parent's bedroom but since it now belonged to her, she wanted to make it feel more like her room.

Everyone was motioned outside due to the servants to an all you can eat buffet/BBQ everyone cheered as Lucy was sat on the stairs watching everyone with a smile on her face. She was glad everyone was enjoying themselves so far, when Mira came and sat next to her, "hey how come your sat all the way over here Lucy?" Lucy just gave a smile, "I'm enjoying watching everyone have a good time Mira, do you like the place?" Mira gave a quick nod as she smiled brightly "it's a beautiful place, your parents really liked keeping it so well maintained. An the people that work are so friendly." that got the blonde smiling even more "Yup! Being here brings back so many memory's of my mother, it's the reason on why it was so hard for me to leave in the first place. Plus with us owning the whole land up to the mountains its really quiet and peaceful. Nothing to worry about. It's also the best place for me to watch the stars."

Mira then looked up and noticed something she had never noticed in Magnolia the sky was a lot more clearer and the stars shone a lot brighter, she could make out only a few constallations in the sky, but only 1 or 2 not many though. "I use to watch them a lot with mama."

Mira noticed the sadness inside Lucy's voice and placed an arm around the girls shoulder, "I'm sure your mama wouldn't want you to feel sad, I bet she's glad your having fun with everyone here." Lucy gave a nod as suddenly her vision was obstructed by pink hair, grinning with a chicken in his mouth. "Wuce! Om at!" this caused the girls to laugh as she dragged the chicken out of his mouth.

"what was that again?" "Luce! Come eat! This food is amazing! Almost as good as Yours and Mira's!" they laughed and nodded standing up she noticed the chef had made her favourite spicy bbq spare ribs, she picked them up and began munching on them. When Natsu got a sudden strange smelt off Lucy again but ignored it.

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Sadly the day had to come to an end, and now Lucy was stood on her balcony while Natsu was taking a shower, she was wearing a vest, and white bed shorts on, looking up at the stars, she could see one shining ever so brightly and smiled knowing it was her mama's star. It was if she was proud of Lucy and everything she had done. Being caught up in the moment of watching the stars she suddenly jumped when she had felt warm arms wrap around her waist.

"Luce.. What's wrong?" she snuggled in his arms and then locked eye's with his onyx ones, "I was just watching mama's star," he placed a hand on her cheek and wiped away a tear that fell down her cheek, " huh.. I didn't notice I was.." "What's on your mind Luce? You've been distracted ever since dinner."

Lucy turned back to the railing and held her hands on it, "I was thinking on why I can't remember Mama's last moments, someone's sealed my memories of that year, I don't know what we did together, where we was.. I know we had spent some time in Magnolia as what Laxus told me. There's… something wrong with me. There's something deep inside me that's hidden from the world and I want to know why." he nuzzled her neck and breathed in the intoxicating smell. "Tell me Luce.. Why do you smell like a dragon?"

That made Lucy's heart skip a beat, which he heard. " Your hiding something, I noticed the other day at the hospital you smelt like a dragon and it's been getting stronger." Giving out a sigh, " That's because I have a dragon… Sealed deep within me Natsu, Apparently Mama sealed her within me, every time I sleep she's training me with her powers but I don't know why! It's apparently something to do with danger that's heading our way."

Natsu was completely shocked by this, he stood back as she looked to him, her eye's flashed a little silver, and he knew she was telling the truth, why would she lie to him about something like this? " what type of dragon?" "Celestial, Natsu.. Do you know anything about a Dragon Host?"

Natsu went and sat down on the chair that was on the balcony thinking back, trying to remember everything that Igneel had told him about Dragon slayers, " As far as what Igneel told me, the Dragon host is the most powerful of us all. As they are connected with a deep bond since the dragon is sealed within your body. Unlike igneel where he just trained me. What's her name?"

Lucy took a deep breath, "Serenity," his eye's widened, he had heard about Serenity the Celestial Dragon. It was said when she was sealed inside a host that the hose would be able to call the dragons. " Has she taught you how to call the dragons yet?" Lucy shook her head confused, "No, she said everything will be revealed to me on my 18th birthday. Which is a month away, I'm scared Natsu, I'm happy I'm getting stronger but what if I can't defeat this new danger? What if I can't handle this new power? What will the guild think of me?"

He had to pull her into his arms to try and calm the girl down, and held her closely, "Shhh everything will be ok Luce, how about we talk about this with Gramps after this little vacation, I was wondering on why you wanted to come here, your searching for some information your mother left behind right?" Lucy nodded and gave a sigh, " but I don't know where father hid mama's journal."

"Do you remember her scent? Every time she hugged you?" Lucy thought back and then went into the bedroom looking in a perfume cabinat and began smelling different ones, then she found the right one, "Chocolate and roses.. This one." she let him give it a sniff and then he smiled. " We will look for the book tomorrow night, since you should be getting use to your new smelling ability's you might be able to sniff it out." Lucy gave a nod and smiled as they got into bed and fell asleep for the night.

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Morning came and knocking was heard at the door, Lucy slowly rose her head, " who is knocking at.." she looked at the time, "8am?" she noticed Natsu had a nice tight grip around her waist, so she just shouted threw, "Who is it?" "Miss Lucy? Breakfast will be ready in 10 minutes, almost all your friends are down there." "Alright thank you!"

A groan was heard at the side of her, "Breakfast! Food!" Lucy giggled as she leaned over and gave Natsu a kiss on the lips, " now that's a nice way to be woken up in the morning." Lucy gave a smile and nodded "Let's go get you some food, plus I'm rather hungry for some chocolate chip pancakes!"

Getting out of bed, Lucy placed on a black silk robe, and handed a red one to Natsu "I could get use to living like this Luce!" the blonde celestial mage laughed opening up her door. "Well, in a few years I might move back here, but for now it's the Fairy tail vacation home!"

Making their way down stairs they saw everyone there and Master Makarov sitting at the head of the table, Marvis was floating about, they had to blink a few times trying to figure out how she had gotten here. "Morning Miss. Lucy, Sir Natsu" a maid bowed as they sat down at the table. "Morning Nina, thank you for waking us up this morning, what's for breakfast?"

The maids around the table took off the silver lids and their laid out was Lucy's favourite full English along with chocolate pancakes, everyone in the guild began drooling at the food, soon everything was devoured. "So what are planning on doing today?" asked Levy who as sipping some juice, "Well I thought we could all go to the beach? It's just round back outside mama's garden. " they all gave an erupted cheer

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Thank you for reading this chapter and sorry it's taken so long to update, what's going to happen at the beach? Is lucy going to find out why her mother sealed the dragon inside of her? What's the master going to say about this?

Stay tuned!

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