How was your week, hope it was good. Here's chapter 12 for you this fine Saturday afternoon. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.
POV: Lucy, Lucy, Narrator
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
"Turn to page forty-eight. Your homework will be all the questions on that page," Mr. Clive announces while writing our assignment on the board. I start on it since we still have time to kill before we leave for the day.
"Geez dad, why are we getting homework? It's bad enough we have to study for tomorrow's exams, and to pile homework onto that, what gives?" Cana Alberona, daughter to Gildarts Clive, asks looking mad as she crosses her arms across her chest with a huff.
Said girl has beautiful long brown hair that is tied up into a high pony tail with two strands of hair framing the side of her face. Her white uniform shirt is slightly open making her show much more cleavage than she's supposed to and a bandage wraps around her left forearm possibly covering up a wound. Her large brown eyes are trained on her father almost defiantly and he glares back at her looking almost tired at his daughter's antics.
Cana is one of the more rowdy people in the class and has at times come over to our table during lunch only to disappear later with some upperclassmen to who knows where. She sits across the room near the doorway and is usually passed out when Gildarts is giving his lessons to the class. I've heard several rumors that Cana is a heavy drinker and that if you get close enough you can even smell the alcohol on her clothing. I haven't gotten close enough to know if the rumor is true and even though some people say she's a bad person to hang around I can't help but feel deep within my heart that she's a nice person.
"What are you looking at," Cana suddenly asks whirling around and looking my way and I freeze a bit embarrassed that she caught me looking at her, "You want to start something Pinky," she sneers and that's when I realize that she isn't looking at me if not the person behind me.
"Pft, as if," Natsu grumbles and when I turn to look at him he's glaring back at Cana with his head resting on the palm of his hand while leaning his arm on the desk looking annoyed and bored, "Why don't you just deal with it like the rest of us and put a sock in it?" Natsu asks moving his gaze toward the window.
"Why don't you go ahead and die?" Her voice sounds challenging but I'm not looking at her so I don't know what her posture is. Natsu, on the other hand, has all of my attention so I notice his hand squeeze into a fist.
"CANA!" Gildarts's voice booms angrily through the room like a ringing gong and the room is completely silent and Cana flinches in her seat, "That's enough. You're getting homework and that's the end of it,"
After that the bell rings and everyone quickly grabs their things and rushes out of the room. Cana stays in her seat continuing to glare at Natsu as he calmly picks up his bag and heads for the exit keeping is eyes trained away from the glaring girl. As I watch this I oddly get the sense that the scene that just happened after Cana's complaint had nothing to do with homework we were assigned. The malice in Cana's previous words and the anger tainting her eyes now as Natsu completely disappears into the crowd out in the hall is a bit suspicious.
Don't follow your curiosity.
Shaking my head I continue to put away my books inside my bag when Levy stands up and turns to look at me with a nervous smile, "Hey Lu, do you mind if we come over to your place to study. We wanted to make a study date but the dorm rooms are too small and the Rec-center is way too crowded," Levy asks and that's when I notice the others behind her.
"Sure, we can go walking together now if you don't mind," I say and they all nod while heading out the door. When I am close to the door I look over at Cana who's putting away her things and I can't help but ask, "Say, Cana, would you like to come study with us too?" she looks up at me a bit shocked, all anger gone from her face
"I agree," Erza says from behind me, "It's been a while since you last hanged out with us,"
The brunette smiles and nods her head, "Sure, why not," and slips her bag onto her shoulder and follows us out of the room after waving to her dad and telling him that she'd be late for dinner… again.
I look around the group as we head up the road toward Fairy Hills and notice that it consists only girls, seeming as Gray disappeared once the bell rang. Lisanna is up front talking with Levy and Erza while I walk behind with Cana feeling a bit awkward. I still haven't gotten all too used to talking to new people and even though I have already previously met Cana I haven't actually had a conversation with her.
"Your name's Lucy, right?" I turn and find Cana looking at me questioningly and it takes me a moment to understand that she's talking to me so I nod, "So you're the famous Heartfelia that I've been hearing about all around school who moved from the famous Fiore capital," she says fixing her bag onto her shoulder and once again I nod feeling a bit speechless. It doesn't surprise me one bit that she knows so much, I've been common knowledge around the school since both of my recent incidents, "Sorry," she apologizes and I almost trip.
"For what," I ask finally finding my voice and it dawns on me that she must be apologizing about her outburst from earlier, "If it's about earlier it's alright. I'm actually surprised that no one else has had an outburst earlier. From the stories I've heard about Fairy Tail you all seem a bit tamer than I anticipated,"
Cana laughs and nods, "It's because of finals. After tomorrow don't be too surprised if every turn you take there's a brawl," I kind of deadpan at the thought of fights starting once finals end tomorrow.
So much for trying to survive my first month in Fairy Tail.
The room is partially silent other than that of furious scribbling and the sound of turning paper along with a whisper or two here and there. I look down at everyone who's huddled around the round coffee table sitting in the middle of the room solving equations or reading from a book. I look up at the clock sitting over the inactive fireplace and notice how late it's getting.
Looking back down at my own math problems I hear a knocking coming from the front door and I get up while putting down my things on the couch I was previously sitting on as I move to the small hallway leading to the front door. Opening the door I'm assaulted with the smell of pizza and almost instantly my stomach begins to growl from hunger.
"Did someone order pizza," Loke asks holding a box of pizza towards me as I stare at him a bit dumbly.
"Sorry, wrong house," I smile crossing my arms in front of my chest.
"Darn it, thought I got it right this time," he laughs and looks over his shoulder, "What am I going to do with all these boxes then," peeking over his shoulder I find Wendy, Jellal, and Yukino each holding two boxes.
Laughing, I stand to the side allowing them all in and I watch as each person walks toward the living room. Yukino is the last to walk into the house and when she passes me she gives me a small smile without a word and I can't help but feel a bit unsettled with her attitude. I see her everyday at school but every time I try to talk to her she always disappears on me without a word. It's almost as if she's trying to avoid me.
Shaking my head, I close the door behind me and head on toward the living room behind everyone else to find the girls all exclaiming on how relieved they are to see food. Apparently I wasn't the only hungry one around here. As I follow behind Cana, who's talking to Loke and asking him if he had any booze on him, I find from the corner of my eye Jellal and Erza staring at each other seemingly lost to the world.
"It's nice to see you again Erza," Jellal says with a warm smile.
Erza smiles back and I can even find a hint of a blush dusted along her cheeks as she ducks her head nodding, "It-it's nice to see you too," they stay standing there just staring at each other when Cana comes out of nowhere slinging her arms around both Jellal's and Erza's shoulder.
"Geez Jellal, when are you going to ask Miss Scarlet here out on a date," Cana howls out in laughter when Jellal's face turns a beet red from her comment including Erza who has ducked her head far enough for her bangs to cover her face, but her crimson ears tell no lie, "We all know you both like each other, so why not do us all a favor and go out already,"
Behind me I hear Levy mutter, "She has a point," and when I look over at them I find Loke and Lisanna both trying to contain their laughter.
"Wait till Mira finds out about this," Lisanna snorts making Loke laugh even harder.
"CANA~" Erza's voice sounds menacing and as I turn to look at her, her eyes seem to be glowing red as a deep dark aura swirls around her almost like tentacles. She's shaking in anger and her fists are clenched so tight her knuckles are a ghostly white.
After that everything's a blur.
Erza tries to strangle Cana but ends up punching Jellal in the process, since Cana ducked behind him, knocking him out completely. After that somehow Levy and Lisanna join in raging an all out war throwing anything they can get their hands on at each other. Wendy, Yukino, and I duck behind one of the couches almost getting hit each by a flying plate which crashes into the nearest wall.
We all watch the scene before us from the safety of our couch and I notice that somehow through the turmoil Gray and Laxus appeared and were now brawling with both Loke and Jellal. I hear laughing next to me and find Yukino covering her mouth trying to control her laughter, "What's so funny?!" I practically screech at her as she continues to laugh.
"It hasn't been that long since Loke, Jellal, and even Laxus have graduated from Fairy Tail Academy and they all act as if they never left," she giggles just as a vase comes flying our way.
"Please don't tell me it gets this bad at school," I whimper holding a pillow over my head and clutching onto Wendy for dear life just as a voice roars, "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING TO MY HOUSE?!" Making the house shake violently around us.
"Nope," Yukino says with a smile and her words are like a symphony over this chaos, "It gets worse,"
If it were humanely possible, my brain would have exploded like a nuclear bomb. Instead I sat there crying my eyes out while both Wendy and Yukino try to comfort me as the others were being threatened by my grandfather over the destruction of his beautiful home.
What did I get myself into?
"Thanks for everything. That was the best study session I have ever been to," Cana says as she walks out the door of the Dreyer home, "Tell your grandfather again that I'm sorry we wrecked his living room,"
"I will," Lucy says holding the door open for the brunette, "Hey, are you sure you don't want Laxus to take you home. It is kind of late for you to be home alone," the blonde says with worry.
Cana waves her off while starting to head toward the street, "Don't worry, my house isn't that far," she says fixing her bag onto her shoulder, "I'll see you tomorrow Lucy,"
"Yeah, see you ," once the brunette is long gone from view, Lucy closes the door blocking out all the dangers that lurk in the darkness beyond her safe haven.
Meanwhile, down the street, Cana walks muttering to herself on how she didn't have enough to eat or drink, most of all drink. She looks up at the canopy of trees that hangs over the road blocking most the sky allowing streaks of moonlight to filter in through the cracks. A slight gust of wind has her shivering making her wish that she had accepted Lucy's request for Laxus to give her a ride home. Now she has to suffer in the dead of night with nothing but the sound of rustling leaves to accompany her.
Just as she sees her house into view she quickens her pace knowing that the sooner she gets off the street she'll feel much better. She looks around the street feeling as if she's being watched and does everything she can from running the rest of the way. She's also tempted to call out to her father so he can come outside but instead just continues to walk feeling her heart pound erratically in her chest.
Some unusual rustling and falling leaves has her looking up in time to see a dark figure jump from the tree above her with bright red eyes. It lands behind her and covers her mouth with a large hand stifling her scream. She squirms but the figure is just too strong for her to break free and she knows that she's done for.
"Gotcha," a dark familiar husky voice says next to her ear and she feels her heart drop.
What the hell was he going to do to her?
From here on the plot should be building up even more and I really hope you all enjoyed this chapter.
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