Child of Hidden Magic

Series: Fairy Tail, Fairy Tail Future

Type: On-going Fanfiction

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure

Pairings: NaLu, Gruvia, Gajevy, Jerza; Elfever, Miraxus; and their children.

Updates: Weekly; Fridays

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or the characters. Purely fan made. However, their children I created from my own imagination.

Chapter Eight

Lucille woke up the next morning around eight thirty, raring to go on their mission today. 'I can't believe it's really happening!' she thought as she began to get ready for the day. After she got her shower, she put on a lavender colored tank top, that had a gem star dangling on the right side of it, blue jean shorts with a tan belt, a tan short sleeved jacket, her zodiac bracelet, purple star earrings, and brown boots. For her hair, she usually wore it down with half of it pulled up. But this time she decided to put it all up into a pony tail. After looking herself over, she nodded and strapped on her spirit keys pouch to her belt.

When she left her room she saw Natalie begin to walk out of her room also. She wore her normal attire. A maroon colored top that hugged her figure, had a high collar, a black trim, and stopped above her stomach; which sported the guild symbol in pink on her right hip. Black colored sleeves, separated from her top, fit her arms and wrapped around her fingers. A maroon colored, tight fit skirt with black leggings adorned her legs, ending with brown boots. Nat looked Lucille over and noticed her hair. "Ya know, I kinda like your hair up in a pony tail!" She complimented her while grinning.

Lucille smiled. "Thanks! I thought it'd be a good change. Plus I don't want my hair to get in my face if I'm running or fighting, ya know?" Natalie nodded as they smelled something good from the kitchen.

Once in the kitchen they saw Lucy and Natsu making eggs, bacon, and pancakes. Natsu making most of it, Lucy helping by setting the table and handing him things that he asked for. Natsu was in fact a good cook. He decided to learn when the girls were born. He found it fun, especially when Lucille and Natalie gave him happy smiles and commented on how delicious it was. Ever since he's been the main cook of the household.

Lucy noticed them and smiled. "Morning girls! Come eat. We've made you a good breakfast so you have enough energy for your mission! Oh! I like your hair up, Lucille. It suits you." Lucy said as she and Natsu each brought a plate with two pancakes, bacon, and eggs over to them.

"Thank you Mom!" Lucille said as she poured syrup over everything. She was usually made fun of for putting syrup on her eggs and bacon, but she liked syrup. And her mentality was 'If syrup makes pancakes taste good, it'll make anything taste good.' Natalie didn't understand until she tried it herself, which she then agreed with Lucille and did the same thing.

"So are you two excited!?" Natsu asked as he and Lucy sat down with their breakfast.

"Heck yeah! Right Lucille?" Natalie asked.

"Yeah! I'm having a hard time sitting actually." She said embarrassed.

Natsu and Lucy laughed heartily. "We all felt that way when we started out. What's your mission about exactly?" Natsu asked. After Lucille told them the gist of it, with Nat putting her thoughts in about it, Lucy and Natsu looked at each other unsure. "And Mirajane approved?" Lucy asked. "Well they have a good and powerful team. With Lydia, Cain, Ray, and Lance; I'm sure they'll be fine." He said trying to calm down his wife; even though he was also somewhat worried.

"Yeah we'll be fine! Mirajane said okay so she must think we can handle it." Lucille said.

"Yeah, believe in us! We've got this." Natalie said as both girls finished their breakfast, putting their plates in the sink. They walked up to Natsu and Lucy, kissing their cheeks and hugging them.

"If you guys aren't back by tomorrow we're coming out to look for you!" Natsu yelled as they were walking outside. The girls laughed as they just walked away and waved. They made plans to meet up with everyone at Magnolia Station.

When they arrived, Ray was leaning against a bench. He wore a tight dark blue short sleeved t-shirt, a white jacket with a high collar and a blue trim that ran along each shoulder, and ran down the arm, dark gray pants, and black boots. He looked up and smiled as they walked over to him. He looked at Lucille and noticed her hair. 'Can she look any cuter?' he thought, his cheeks turning a slight pink. He coughed to clear his throat before speaking. "You two look good."

"Thanks!" Lucille said smiling, making Ray's heart pound a little faster.

"So we're waiting on the others?" Natalie asked. Ray only nodded. So they all sat on the bench while Ray just leaned against it.

A few minutes later, Lance, Cain, and Lydia; whom was walking close to Lance, walked up to them. Cain had armor on his torso and arm plates that went from his elbow down to his wrists. Underneath his armor was a tight black long sleeved shirt, with dark red pants and black boots. Lydia wore a yellow tank top with a black jacket that is sleeveless and ends a little past her waist, a yellow choker, with a black spiked belt, a ripped blue jean skirt, and black sandals. And Lance wore an orange shirt that had black trim and cut off at the sleeves, an orange bandana across his forehead, orange gloves with black trim, blue jeans, and brown boots.

"Alright! Let's do this!" Lydia said with her hands on her hips.

"Yeah!" Natalie and Lucille said as they pumped their fists.

After getting their tickets they boarded the train and occupied two rows; Ray, Lucille, and Natalie in one row, and Lydia, Lance, and Cain in the other. As the train began on to their destination, Rabenda Town, Lance and Natalie were subjected to their nausea. Both being part dragon slayer, they gained their fathers' motion sickness. In fact, Lucille was also succumbed to it. She had forgotten that she got motion sickness too; being in the Spirit World made her forget that little fact. Natalie laid her head in Lucille's lap, as it helped her nausea. Lance rested his head in Lydia's, much to her delight, as she stroked his hair; seeing as it calmed him. Lucille was breathing in deeply to calm herself but it wasn't working.

"Oh no..I'm gonna blow!" Lucille covered her mouth. She looked frantically for the restroom but it was so far. 'I'll never make it!' she thought. She had to try though, or else she'd puke right on Natalie's head and she knew her twin would not be too thrilled. She pushed off Natalie, much to her dismay, and ran for the bathroom; luckily making it in time.

After a few minutes, Lucille came walking back, holding her stomach. Natalie laying where she should be sitting. She moved Natalie's head so she could sit, and resumed letting Natalie lay in her lap.

"You alright?" Ray asked genuinely concerned. He blushed slightly and added. "If it'll help you feel better you can lay your head in my lap.." His heart beat faster when she looked at him, giving him such a relieved and heartfelt expression of gratitude that he'd let her. She only nodded and laid her head in his lap. She held one of Natalie's hands and grabbed one of his with her other hand.

"It…calms..me.." She said her voice strained. He merely smiled and grasped hers back, rubbing his thumb on her hand. Her face softened as he did that motion. He smiled softly and thought, 'Soon…I won't be able to handle this. But I can't succumb to my feelings. I'm not going to scare her away from me. I'll just have to bare through it. Ignoring how I feel towards her.' he sighed and looked up to find smirks directed at him from Cain and Lydia. As well as knowing glances. Ray blushed and decided to look outside. 'It's going to be a long hour and a half.' he sighed.

"We should..come up with...our team name. Like...Max's.." Natalie said through gritted teeth.

Cain quirked an eyebrow. "Hm! Yes we should!"

Lydia looked thoughtful. "Something with all of us.."

"Elemental...Rune..Knights..?" Lance suggested through his nausea.

"Or Celestial Dragon Knights?" Lydia asked.

"I think Elemental Dragon Spirits would be better." Cain said with his arms folded across his chest in thought.

After some silence Ray spoke up. "Okay, so with those three choices, let's vote. One for Elemental Rune Knights, two for Celestial Dragon Knights, or three for Elemental Dragon Spirits." Ray held up his hand with three fingers up. Cain did the same also. Lydia voted for the second choice and Lance voted for the first. Natalie and Lucille were silent, at first the others thought they were asleep. But suddenly Natalie held up a shaky hand with two fingers up. Everyone waited for Lucille's vote, since her vote would determine the name. Her eyebrows scrunched together and she opened her mouth to speak.

"...Three.." She mumbled.

Cain smiled. "Yosh! Then it's decided. We'll be called the 'Elemental Dragon Spirits'."

They all smiled and nodded, all happy with the decision. They drifted into comfortable silence as they waited to make it to their destination. Lance, Lucille, and Natalie struggling to not puke everywhere.

Once at Rabenda Town train station, they noted the town was a little ways away. And the surrounding area eerily quiet. With that welcome they began walking towards the entrance to the town. No one said anything, focusing on their surrounding in case something decided to jump out and attack. Suddenly Lance and Lucille stopped, sniffing the air for a few seconds; the others not noticing their actions. Lance and Lucille's eyes widen as they ran forward, out stretching their arms on front of their friends to stop them, before they yelled "Stop!" The others stopped, startled.

"Woah! What's wrong?" Natalie asked as she looked in front of them. Seeing nothing.

"You smelled it too?" Lucille asked Lance. He nodded.

"Yeah." He moved his foot to make a line on the path. He turned to the others. "Beyond this line is where that woman making people fall asleep has put a dome over the town. A sleeping dome." The others looked surprised.

"But how do you know?" Lydia asked.

Lucille tapped her nose. "Thanks to our dad's we have a strong sense of smell." She turned to Natalie. "Since we were born at the same time Nat, Mom said that the dragon senses we would get would be split."

"Ah. So since I have the hearing.."

"I received the smell." Lucille finished. "That's why you didn't know either. This dome spell has a weird smell, so we realized that before we walked in. However, I'm not sure if it's a sleeping dome or a sensing dome; so she's alerted when people walk into the town."

"So how are we supposed to enter the town?" Cain asked aloud.

"Why don't we walk around the perimeter of the dome? See if she's on the outside or see if there's a way in." Ray suggested.

"Let's go in groups. One group with me and the other with Lucille. So we can make sure not to walk into the dome on accident. While we walk we'll keep smelling to see if it's a sleeping dome." Lance decided. Everyone nodded. Cain and Lydia went with Lance, while Natalie and Ray went with Lucille. Lance gave Lucille the flyer with information on the mission. Saying he memorized it and she should look it over to see if there was anything weird about it. And that he would be thinking about too. She nodded and they began walking in opposite directions.

As Lucille's group walked, she stayed on the side that had the dome while Ray and Natalie walked on the other. Lucille was concentrating on smelling but also rereading the flyer. 'I don't notice anything weird. I've read it three times over and I can't find anything weird or noticed something I missed..' she sighed and gave the flyer to Natalie and Ray. "I can't find anything. Maybe you guys can?" She asked exasperated. Ray nodded and looked at it with Natalie.

Ray stopped. "Hold up. Nothing's weird about the information, but what if, it had some kind of code or runes in it?" He asked looking at them.

"Huh?" Natalie said lost.

"Oh! Like some sort of key for the dome? So we can enter it like entering a door!" Lucille said excitedly,

"Exactly!" Ray said giving her the flyer.

She took it and turned to the invisible dome. She held up the flyer close to the dome and the information rippled before showing runes. They gasped and she pulled the flyer away, the flyer returning to normal. "You were right, Ray! We should get the others!"

"We could probably just shout and Lance would hear us." Natalie said as she inhaled a large breath before she was about to shout. Lucille and Ray panicked before she covered Natalie's mouth with her hand.

"What if your big mouth alerts her to us when you yell!?" Lucille hissed.

Natalie looked at her offended and angry. "Are you going to yell?" Lucille asked. Natalie breathed out her nose and crossed her arms, shaking her head no. "Okay." Lucille said removing her hand from her mouth.

Natalie huffed. "Well how're we supposed to get them? Circle all the way around with you in between the dome to protect us? That'll take too long!" She said annoyed.

Lucille and Ray looked thoughtful. "She's right." Ray voiced. "It'll take too long."

Lucille looked to the dome and the flyer. "Maybe..the flyer will take down the whole dome?" She said as she resumed putting the flyer up to the dome, only she put the whole flyer against the dome. The information disappeared and was replaced with runes. Suddenly the flyer was against the dome like static cling. The dome rippled and was replaced with hundreds of runes.

Cain, Lance, and Lydia stopped to see what Lucille had discovered. "They got it!" Cain said as they watched the runes stop circling over the dome and disperse.

"Yeah, the dome is definitely gone." Lance said sniffing the air. "It's safe to go in. We'll meet up with them, hopefully." He said as he walked forward, Cain and Lydia following suit.

Lucille smiled and began walking forward. "Let's go!" Ray and Natalie were hesitant but followed. The town smelled like nothing but lavender, which seemed to be what the town was known for.

"Heh, perfect town to put a sleeping spell on." Ray commented. Since lavender was known for being calming and helping to relax you.

Lucille and Natalie chuckled. The town's houses were simple one story houses, although most of the buildings with more than one story were businesses like bakery's and such. It seemed this town was more a farming town.

Natalie gasped and pointed to a little restaurant that had people laying their heads on the tables, sleeping. Running up to check their pulses, they sighed when they felt the steady rhythm of a heart beat. Luckily these people weren't dead, yet.

"Thank goodness," Lucille said putting a hand to her heart.

"We'd better work fast." Natalie commented determined.

"Oh good, we found you guys." Lance said as he walked up behind them.

"We were afraid you would meet that woman before we found you." Cain said, sighing in relief.

"Are they dead?" Lydia asked matter-of-fact.

"Lydia!" Natalie hissed.

"No, they're just sleeping." Lucille said rubbing her arm.

"So where is she? I figured she'd appear by now." Cain said suspiciously. 'Something's not right…' he thought.

Lucille walked to the main street silently, making the others curious. She turned to the right, the road heading straight to the towns lavender fields, and behind the fields, a forest. 'I feel like I'm being drawn that way. I don't hear a flute though. Maybe its my intuition, if I were to hide, that's probably where I'd go..' she thought. "I have a feeling she's in the lavender fields, or in that forest." Lucille said pointing in the direction.

The others looked at each other, then back at Lucille, unsure.

"Well we might as well look. It's better than standing here wasting our time waiting for her." Natalie said encouraging Lucille with her toothy grin. Lucille smiled as they began walking.

When they got to the middle of the lavender fields, they heard the faint sound of music from a flute. However they didn't feel drowsy. Like the woman with the flute was just playing her flute.

"Careful guys.." Ray said cautiously.

Suddenly they stopped as a woman with fluffy pink hair with a white bow on the left side of her head, fair skin, wearing a white summer dress with kimono like sleeves, and white sandals came out of the forest and walked to them; still playing her flute. She stopped a several feet away from them and ended her flute playing. She had the air of a little girl but a woman who should not be messed with.

Her bangs covered her eyes but could be seen when she moved. She smiled like a little kid who had received a toy they had been wanting for so long; but it had a creepiness to it. "Ah~! I haven't had visitors for so long! I wonder if…maybe.." She mumbled with cheer in her voice, hand to her cheek as she thought with that same smile.

Lucille glared. "What's your name?! Why are you putting people to sleep and killing them?!" She asked.

The woman looked thoughtful and cocked her head to the side. Then she smiled. "My name is Shizuka." She said as she curtsied. "And as for my putting people to sleep… that's because I'm looking for someone!" She answered as she giggled and spun around.

Lucille looked at the others. "But why are you killing them?!" Natalie yelled, annoyed by her already.

Shizuka stopped spinning. "Ahh…" She said putting a finger to her chin. "I got bored waiting. So I killed them. My magic can do that, as long as my flute allows it." She said as if it was the most natural thing to do, stroking her flute. The others looked appalled and became angry, wanting to take her down.

"That's the most stupidest reason I've ever heard of!" Natalie yelled. "That's it!"

Shizuka watched Natalie, smiling. Natalie rushed at her yelling "Karyū no-" but before she could finish, Shizuka played her flute; which seemed to immobilize Natalie as she fell to the ground.

"Ugh.." Natalie said as she struggled to get up. "I can't..move…"

Lucille started running to Natalie when Lance grabbed her. "You can't! You might get caught in it too!" Lucille struggled some but stopped knowing he was right.

"Her flute can do more than just make people fall asleep and die." Lydia said. Her hair crackling as she was struggling to restrain herself from rushing to help Natalie as well.

"Who knows what else it can do. It could probably make us turn on each other, as well." Lance commented.

Suddenly the flute changed it's tune, as Shizuka desired. "She can direct it to one person or many.." Ray noted. Seeing as they could listen to the music but were not affected.

Natalie began to yawn. She noticed this and tried to shake it off, but was failing. "Guh..no…" The music became louder and stronger, seeing as Natalie was fighting it.

Lucille realized Shizuka was putting her to sleep and panicked. "No!" She yelled, Lance and Ray having to restrain her from rushing to her sister's side.

Natalie glared and with the last of her strength, she attacked. "Karyū no…Hōkō!" She yelled as she blew fire from her mouth. From the lack of strength, it was more like a fire ball. Shizuka saw and avoided it, however it singed her clothes. Natalie finally collapsed, falling asleep and breathing softly.

"Oh my.." Shizuka said as she stopped her flute playing and padded her dress to get the fire out.

Lucille looked at her sister just lying there. "Nat…" She said as she glared at Shizuka. "Why are you doing this? Who are you looking for?! And how does putting people to sleep help you?!" She yelled, still restrained.

Shizuka looked thoughtful, a finger to her chin. "Hmm, I guess I could tell you. I mean I'll probably kill you all anyway!" She said cheerfully, smiling sweetly. "You see, when I put people to sleep," she began as she crouched by Natalie and stroked her hair, earning a growl from everyone. She only smiled as she continued. "I can see into their thoughts. As they sleep I can access their memories to see who they have met and such. And the reason I do this is to see if they know the person I'm looking for. Once I find the person that knows her, I'll release everyone from my magic and ask the person where I can find her." She stopped stroking Natalie's hair and stood up.

"So then, who are you looking for?" Ray asked, him and Lance releasing Lucille.

Shizuka looked as though she remembered something that she forgot. "Oh! She was quite young when we met. I'm not sure if she'd remember me. However, she should be back now, so I'm searching for her. She's very important for a project we're working on! It's going to change the world!" She said as she sighed dreamily.

'What? Change the world? I have a bad feeling about this project "they're" working on, whoever "they" are.' Lucille thought.

"Who's the person you're looking for?" Lance asked with genuine curiosity.

Shizuka smiled and giggled. "She told me to call her Lu, but her full name is Lucille Dragneel."

Rabenda is Lavender in Japanese.

Shizuka means quiet in Japanese. I figured that was perfect for her. :P

This is sorta short but I felt this was the perfect time to stop it. How does Shizuka know Lucille? What's the project Shizuka and her friends working on? Will it change the world in a good way or bad way? And why is Lucille needed?

You will have to wait and see! :D

Btw Happy 4th of July everyone! (^.^)/