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.

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

Chapter Twenty-four

Lance and Zane were in the records room, looking for anything that could give them a lead to someone who would have wanted to be immortal. Zane pulled out a book and brought it to Lance.

"This has every record of anyone who joined Sabertooth. Whether they are still a member, or who left." Zane informed him.

Lance put on his pair of orange gale-force reading glasses and began to read, Zane putting on his white ones as well and following suit. If they were reading normally it probably would have taken an hour. But with their glasses the time was shortened to about thirty minutes before they found a two names. A woman named Nina and a man named Quinn.

"These two..." Zane began as he removed his glasses. "I remember seeing pictures of them and hearing about them from mother and father. They were both great mages but one day they left. Not together. I believe Nina left first, then Quinn left a few years after she did."

Lance nodded, removing his glasses. He looked at the page. He found he was right. The page being torn about ten years ago. So, if Nina left ten years ago and Quinn left a few months after, they were they most likely suspects. He looked to see what their magic was but it wasn't listed. "Say, do you happen to know what their magic is? It's not listed." He asked.

Zane looked at him with a curious look. "It's not? It should be. They're always listed." He said as he glanced under their names. Sure enough, the magic was not listed. Zane frowned. "That's not right. Something's wrong here.."

Lance stared at him. "Could they have..?"

"No. We have a record keeper who writes down everything. We don't allow those leaving the guild to put their names and magic in themselves. For this exact reason..."

"But maybe one of them influenced the record keeper. With influence magic." Lance suggested.

Zane frowned shaking his head. Something was amiss. "We should ask my mother. She would probably know what their magic is and maybe why they're not listed." They nodded to each other as the put the records book away and marched in search of Yukino.

Yukino was in the masters office with Sting, Rogue, and Kagura. Each had a serious expression on their faces. Sting was looking outside the window in deep thought. Yukino sat on the couch with Kagura as Rogue leaned against the wall opposite the women, his arms crossed.

"So, someone had been in Sabertooth and is probably the culprit or conspiring with them to obtain Lucille." Kagura spoke.

"And they may still be here as we speak." Rogue added.

Yukino fiddled with her thumbs as she began to worry about Lucille's safety. If they were still here, who were they? Sting turned around to look at the, and was about to speak when Zane and Lance bursted into the room.

"Zane? Lance? What's up?" Sting asked surprised.

The boys surveyed everyone there. If they were all together now would be the perfect time to ask. Lance spoke first.

"We're not sure, but we think we might have found two people who may be a part of the group that wants Lucille." Their eyes widened, but they remained silent, waiting for them to continue.

"We looked at the records of those who have left the guild and found two that may fit the time frame that Lance observed from that missing page. Do you remember a 'Nina' and a 'Quinn'? They left around ten years ago." Zane inquired.

Sting, Yukino, and Rogue looked stern. Sting walked around the desk to lean against the front of it. "Nina and Quinn. They were powerful mages. Nina came to our guild when she was eleven years old after her village was burned down by unknown forces. She lost her family, her being the oldest of four siblings. Despite her loss, she was a very warm and kind young woman. Taking on the role of everyone's big sister. Probably to make up for her loss." Sting said somewhat sadly.

"Quinn. He came to our guild with hopes of being a great Mage so he could help people. To this day we still don't know his past. He never told us and we didn't want to pry. He was a pretty nice fellow. Liked to make jokes to lighten the mood, but otherwise he kept to himself." Rogue informed.

"Nina and Quinn developed a bond. Like brother and sister. Quinn looked up to Nina, and Nina in turn took him under her wing. I felt maybe Quinn reminded her of one of her siblings. One day, Nina came to Sting and I, saying she had to leave, but that she enjoyed her time here and thanked us for taking her in when she had nowhere to go. When I asked why she was leaving, she just smiled and said it was time. Quinn begged her to stay, but she said she couldn't. He said he'd go with her and she ended up whispering something to him that we couldn't hear. Then she kissed his forehead and left. Quinn secluded himself. Going on missions alone. We offered to go with him but he said he needed to become stronger on his own. Which he definitely did. A few years later, he also left. Never telling us why but we assumed it was to find Nina." Yukino explained as she looked at the ground. She lifted her eyes to stare at Sting, who looked sad.

Lance and Zane mulled over their explanation. They still needed more information. Nina hadn't given them a definite answer as to why she needed to leave. Maybe she joined the group that wanted Lucille.

"What was their magic? It wasn't listed in the records" Zane asked.

Yukino looked at her son surprised. "That's strange. It should have been.. Quinn had 'Summoning Magic' meaning he could summon any mythological creature he thought of to attack his foes. He also could form a bond with animals to make them do his bidding, called 'Animal Control'. Then he had 'Influence Magic'. Nina could transform herself to look like anyone, teleport, and she had magic called 'Angel Soul'."

"Angel Soul? Like the opposite of Aunt Mirajane's 'Satan Soul'?" Lance asked curiously. Yukino smiled and nodded. Lance thought about their magic. Quinn had influence magic, so maybe he influenced the record keeper to not list their magic. But why? As for Nina, she could teleport and had transformation magic. "Wait! If she has teleportation and transformation magic she could very well be in the guild!" Lance said panicked.

It seems he was a little late in his thoughts because Sting, Yukino, Rogue, and Kagura all had very worried or serious expressions. 'Seemed like they had the same thought.' Lance thought.

"You're right, Lance." Rogue said.

"Even if she were in the guild..how could we pick her out?" Kagura commented as she and Yukino stood up.

"I could probably help." Lance said as he raised his hand.

"How do you mean, Lance?" Sting asked.

"Well, I've learned some 'Rune Magic' from Freed. Transformation magic leaves a trail or glitch if you know how to look for it." He explained, his tone sounding like a teacher. "I could probably conjure a Rune trail that will find anyone who has transformation magic. Then we can go from there."

Sting broke out into a grin. "Awesome Lance! Then we'll leave it to you! As for us, we'll keep on the look out for anyone suspicious. Lucille is still keeping someone with her at all times, right?" He asked.

"Yes." Zane answered.

"Alright. Then Lance, go ahead and begin. The rest of us will go about the guild and search." Sting said, everyone nodding.

Unbeknownst to them, the door to the masters office, which they thought was closed, had been opened a crack; a man listening in to their conversation. They closed the door quickly and softly, not making a sound. They smiled. "Guess I've been found out." They said, teleporting away, just before all of them filed out.

The unknown man teleported to a mansion high up in the mountains. There, the skies were cloudy, the atmosphere around the mansion eerie. The person sighed and waved in front of their face, their appearance changing. In their place now stood a young woman. She had short orange hair that curls around her cheeks with short bangs, a right blue and left green down turned eye, and freckles. She wears a maroon dress that reaches up her neck with a gold trim. It has three cut-out tear drop shapes on her chest and is sleeveless on her right arm; a black glove adorning her right hand, her left sleeve has the shoulder cut out and reaches to her wrist; a gold butterfly rests in the middle at the end of her sleeve with a gold trim. A red cloak like material is attached to her her right shoulder and falls down her back to right in at her knees. A small black corset tied together with a red ribbon and a gold butterfly in the middle adorns her waist. The dress ends above her knees, the sides splitting to reveal red ruffles which show black tights and maroon boots that meet her knees with a gold butterfly and trim at her ankles; the foot of the boots are black.

The woman smiled and fluffed her hair. "Ah, that's better!" She said cheerfully. Walking into the mansion, she didn't get three feet in before she heard a squeal and a woman run towards her.

"NINAAA~!"

The woman called Nina smiled as she opened her arms to embrace the young woman. "Hello, Shizuka."

Shizuka lifted her head and smiled. "Welcome back!" She said cheerfully and straightened her posture, leaving Nina's arms. "How was your undercover mission?" She asked curiously as she fluffed some of her bangs.

Nina folded her hands in front of her. "I'm just on my way to report it. But I'd like to see Diana first. Walk with me?" Shizuka nodded and they began to walk down the long corridors. Shizuka talked about how boring it was while she was away earning a giggle from Nina. Soon, they arrived at two large double doors.

"She really missed you, Nina." Shizuka mentioned, her lips pursed. Then she smiled. "I'll let Master know you're back and we'll wait for you." She said then skipped away.

Nina let out a small sigh before she opened the doors. The room was fairly large. A couches and end table sat beside the right side of the room, to the left was a large vanity and a large wardrobe closet. In the center was a large king sized bed with posts almost touching the ceiling, two side tables with lamps on each side of the bed. Sheer curtains draped all around the side of the bed, hiding the silhouette of a person.

Nine walked up to the right side of the bed and pulled away the curtains. She peered in and smiled. "Hello, Diana. I'm back."

Diana was a small young girl around the age of twelve. She has white hair that is pulled up into two buns, with tan skin, and black eyes. She wears a white kimono with black birds on it and black sandals. She looked up at Nina and her eyes seemed to soften a little. "Nina. Welcome back." She spoke in a monotone kind of voice. She lie in bed holding a crystal ball. Diana looked back towards the crystal ball, waving her hand to make images appear.

Nina sat down on the bed beside her. She could tell Diana was sulking, in her own non-emotional way. "I'm sorry I was gone so long Diana. It was only supposed to be a week but ended up being three.." She looked at Diana who didn't seem to be giving her the time of day. Nina smiled sadly. Diana had come to rely on her a lot. Ever since she got hurt in an accident and became paralyzed from the waist down. After the two of them met, Nina realized that Diana had come to think of Nina as a mother figure. Nina took care of her, helped her with things she couldn't do herself if she were able to walk.

"So, how has your condition been? Did Shizuka take good care of you?" Nina asked to try and get the pouty girl to talk.

Diana's crystal ball went blank as Diana looked at Nina. "She did okay. But she was too perky and annoying.." She said, slightly puffing her cheeks a little earning a chuckle from Nina. "I've been okay. I haven't used any of my magic. Only to look in my crystal ball. I don't feel bad when I do use my magic to see things in my crystal ball."

Nina nodded. "I see. That's good." She said smiling as she stroked Diana's cheek. "I promise I'll be back." She stood up. "I have to report to Master about what I found out."

As Nina began to walk away, Diana called out. "What did you find out?"

Nina kept her back turned as she replied. "The young celestial maiden we seek finally knows why she is needed." She looked at Diana and smiled. "And it seems that my cover may have been compromised." She replied, not showing that she was worried. Now that she knows, things will fall into place. Even if her cover was blown, this works in their favor. She then waved before leaving the room.

Lucille and the others came back to Sabertooth and dropped off their new clothes in their rooms. When they came back to the main hall they ran into Zane and Lance, whom were huddled together. Lucille called out to them.

"Hey guys! What are you two up to?" She said cheerfully.

Lance and Zane looked up alarmed and hid their hands behind their backs. "Nothing." They said in unison.

Everyone looked at the pair with suspicion. Bea quirked her eyebrow. "Oh?" She stared them down with her arms crossed. Both boys averted their gazes under her stare but showed no sign of explaining themselves.

Lance didn't want to worry Lucille over what him and Zane had found out. He was just in the middle of creating his Rune spell to track anyone who was using transformation magic when Lucille called out to him. He tried to think of a way to make the, leave when Zane spoke.

"I think Leroy, Ray, and Cain are out by the pool. You guys should go see them." He said as he began to push them in the other direction.

"Hmm..alright. But this isn't over. I will find-"

"Yes, yes. You will. Now go on." Zane urged as he finally got the, to pass the corner and on their way to the pool.

Lance sighed in relief. "Thanks Zane. I owe you. I just don't want to worry Lucille."

"I understand. We should find the person first before we tell her anyway." Zane said as he gave Lance a small smile.

Lance nodded as he went back to work. Hoping they could catch this Nina and see if their suspicions were correct.

Natalie grumbled. "Well if their at the pool...just join them!" She said excitedly. Truthfully she was nervous of seeing Cain in his swimming trunks, especially since she accidentally saw all of him.

"Hmm, I'm not against it." Lydia commented as she flipped some of her hair.

Lucille smiled. She hadn't gone swimming since before she left for the Spirit World. Yeah, they had a pool at Fairy Tail, but with everything that happened since she came back, she never thought about it. "Alright. But I didn't bring a bathing suit.."

"Don't worry! I brought two just in case we wanted to. You can borrow my other one!" Natalie volunteered.

"Alright, then let's go get dressed!" Bea said. She then tried to persuade Kenji to join them and after she mentioned maybe Zane would come by, he decided to go along. Yuuna didn't feel like it, so she left to go to the library. Bea and Kenji left to go get changed, as did Natalie, Lucille and Lydia. When they met up again Bea had changed into a black one piece that criss-crossed across her chest, and was open on the sides. Kenji changed into dark purple swimming trunks that had a camouflage print. Lydia wore a dark yellow bikini, the top was strapless and tied in the middle. Natalie wore a dark red bikini with black stripes. Lucille wore Natalie's red bikini one piece that tied around her neck and had a opening that exposed some of her abdomen.

Bea gasped when she saw Lucille. "You look so cute, Lu!" She said grabbing her into a hug. Lucille blushed, turning bashful.

"Doesn't she?!" Natalie agreed.

Lucille's blush turned even more red. "You guys..really.." Bea and Natalie just laughed at her embarrassment. Lucille looked at Kenji who just gave her a nod. Saying he basically agreed with them as well. "Alright already, let's just..go..." She said as she began walking without them.

Once they got to the pool they saw Leroy and Cain floating on the surface. They walked up to them and said hi to get their attention. Leroy and Cain swam over to them and got out. Cain was in simple red swimming trunks, and Leroy wore grey swimming trunks with vertical yellow stripes. Cain took one look at Natalie and blushed. Sure, he had seen her in a bathing suit before, but now that they were a couple, he noticed everything about her even more; he couldn't help but stare at her. But when Natalie noticed his stare, he looked away and blushed a little.

"Woah.." Leroy commented. He was surprised to see four beautiful ladies in bathing suits in front of him that had very pleasing figures. He noticed Bea first, who definitely appealed to him because they had somewhat of a history, then Lydia, who always looked good, then Natalie but she was off limits, and lastly, Lucille. She had her hair down and her hands clasped together in front of her. She seemed to be embarrassed to be in front of them in her attire. He walked up to her and smiled. "You look beautiful, Lucille." He didn't have any hidden motive in his tone. He was just being genuinely honest.

Lucille blushed but gave a small smile. "Oh..thanks. This suit is Nat's cause I forgot to bring one. But...thank you."

Ray popped up out of the water, just now noticing the girls and Kenji had come back. But when he noticed how close Leroy was to Lucille, then noticing her swim suit, he felt a form of jealousy arise in him. He didn't want Leroy that close to her, especially because of who he is. Ray couldn't stop himself. He got out of the pool and marched over to stand in front of Lucille, making Leroy back up a little.

"Ray?" Lucille gasped.

Ray wore dark blue swimming trunks that had a water-like pattern on them. He stared Leroy down. "Please don't get that close to her." Everyone was silent after that declaration.

Leroy's eyes widened but then a smirk pulled at his lips. "Oh? Does that mean, you two are..?"

Aaaaand that's where I'll leave it! I know there was a lot of going back and forth but I tried to ease in and out as smoothly as possible. Hope you guys are okay with it. ^^;

Now, we get some insight as to the group that wants Lucille. ^_~