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POV: Lucy, Lucy, Narrator
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Warm sunlight pours in through the open window as I lie in my bed looking up at the ceiling. Wendy is on the floor reading a magazine that she picked off one of my shelves humming a little tune as she swings her legs behind her content. She looks up at me and smiles before looking back down at the magazine turning a page and reading whatever she can.
Jellal dropped her off this morning before he went to work since Yukino went out of town with some friends to Onibus to go do some shopping for a week, and Laxus was out with my grandfather at who knows where, leaving me to babysit Wendy on my own. I don't quite mind it, only that I don't actually know how to entertain a young preteen.
A phone rings nearby and I stand up stepping over Wendy making my way down the hall downstairs where the phone is ringing. I pick up the phone and press it to my ear, "Dreyer residence," I answer and there's a pause before a gruff voice answers on the other side of the phone.
"Lucy, is that you," the voice asks and I unconsciously nod even though the person on the other side can't see me, "I swear if I didn't know better I'd think it was Layla answering the phone," I smile a bit finally recognizing the voice.
"Do you really think that," I ask as I wait for Jude Heartfelia to reply.
"I do, you're your mother's very image," he says with melancholy staining his voice. He then clears his throat and asks, "So how are you doing, I heard you fell down a flight of stairs some weeks ago?" he asks worried and I can already picture his expression right now and I know that there will be scolding soon.
Waving off his worry I lean into the wall resting my head against the wall, "I'm fine, I only reopened my previous wounds and got only a few bruises." I sigh looking over to a wedding picture of my father and mother that sits right next to the phone among a few other pictures of my mom, my uncle, and my aunt when they were kids, "I had accidentally crashed into someone and I lost my footing and fell, but a friends of mine found me and rushed me to the hospital as fast as he could,"
"Well I owe that boy my gratitude,"
Pushing myself off the wall I ask, "So how's travelling been?" I ask looking at a miniature globe that sits at the same table that I'm standing next to, "Are you still in Bosco?"
"No, I was only passing through Bosco; I'm in Desierto at the moment. I'm going to sign a deal with a trading company here in a week and then I'm going onto Enca before going back home give or take a few other stops," he says as if it were nothing.
I trace the small globe locating the countries he'd be going to and I feel myself grow lonely. I'm not all that close to my father and even though at the moment we are having a normal conversation I can clearly hear the anxious tone in my father's vice. He doesn't really like looking at me all that much since I look so much like my mother and he tries everything he can from shutting me out completely. Even I have qualms with staying in a room alone with him but hearing him being so far away makes me feel as if I don't have a mom or a dad, "You're so far away," I whisper and I hear him sigh sadly through all the talking that's coming from the other side of the line indicating that he must be out in a market place or something.
"I know, and I'm sorry for having to take this job. I promise that I'll get home as soon as I can," he says before quickly asking, "Where's your grandfather, I need to talk to him about something important." I look up and see Wendy at the foot of the stairs and I smile at her.
"He went out with Laxus; I think Laxus has a fight tonight so he probably won't be home until later," I say and he huffs almost sounding annoyed.
The line is quiet for a minute before he asks, "So how's school? I haven't been able to ask you if you've made any friends or how your classes were going." I hear him grunt and then mutter out an apology on the other end, "How's Magnolia treating you?"
"It's ok," I turn away from Wendy before whispering, "Although some of the people here are so… mysterious. It's almost as if everyone were hiding some great big secret and I can't shake the feeling that I'm always being watched," I hear a crash through the line and then some cussing before my father yells something that I can't quite understand before he answers me again.
"It's best if you don't think about it and try not asking too many questions," I tense up at his words feeling a cold chill run up my spine, "Well I'm sorry but I've got to go." Dad pants as if he were making his way through a crowd of people, which I believe he is at the moment given all the talking and background noise that's emitting from the receiver, "Tell your grandfather to call me whenever he gets home and call me if you need anything,"
"Alright I will," I sigh while looking back at Wendy who is now making her way toward the living room reaching for the remote control, "I'll see you soon," I whisper longingly.
Just as I'm about to hang up my dad says, "Stay safe Lucy," before hanging up leaving me standing frozen in the foyer.
Now it isn't the words that freak me out, since it seems to be what everyone around Magnolia keeps on telling me, but the way he says it. He sounded worried and a bit overprotected, but what father wouldn't sound like that especially one who is more than a hundred-thousand-miles away, but most of all he sounded scared. I know my father and he is not one to kneel to fear, much less show it, so when I hear him tell me that I can't help but feel scared myself.
"Why would he sound scared?" Natsu asks sitting in the chair next to mine as we watch the TV. Wendy walks in from the kitchen carrying a bowl of popcorn which she offers me and Natsu some. She eyes him wearily but continues to hold her beautiful smile.
Alright, yes, Natsu is at my house, again. We've been on summer break for about a week now and he has come over whenever no one else but me and Wendy are home, since just about all of my male family members dislike him. We've been trying to figure out on whether what I had discovered between Gajeel and Levy was that they were dating or I had just seen things. We would ask the duo ourselves on what was going on, but Levy went out of town with her family to Akane and is currently staying at the resort until further notice. Gajeel is also out of town along with Juvia to visit some relatives up in Oak Town, I recently found that they're both step siblings, making it hard to interrogate either one.
"I don't know, he sounded fine earlier but just when I was about to hang up he said 'Stay safe Lucy' and just hung up without saying anything else. After he hang up I felt chills run up and down my arms and I couldn't help but feel that there was meaning behind his words," I hug a nearby pillow after handing Wendy the bowl back, "You know, he always hated coming to visit in Magnolia. Said there was something odd about this town and he was even about to cancel the plans he made with my grandfather with me staying here and was going to take me travelling with him," I sigh as I watch the annoying commercials pass by the screen, "He ended up changing his mind last minute and now I'm here, and he's all the way over there wherever he is."
"Everything's going to be alright Luce, you'll see," Natsu murmurs and Wendy nods, though she has a look that says she doesn't know what we're talking about. I give them both a small thanks before something explodes by the TV and a deep testosterone filled voice roars something that I don't quite understand, "Look, the match is on," I turn to the TV and watch a crowd of people sitting and cheering. I spot Laxus immediately as he throws punches making impact with his victims face leaving a bit of blood in his wake.
Wendy and Natsu cheer every time Laxus throws a punch and boo whenever he gets hit. We even start laughing when we watch Makarov stomp around furiously and starts yelling at Laxus. He looks so comical that it's hard not to laugh.
"Go Laxus!" Wendy crows while fist pumping the air.
"Knock him out!" Natsu also cries and the look in his eye that I had seen at school during the fight before I left the room and found Cana after she had disappeared. Everyone still assures me that she must have gotten sick or skipped out of the exams but I can't help but feel that deep down there is something else going on. Truth is that ever since that day I haven't been able to feel that something malevolent has been following me around.
Even now, as I watch Natsu and Wendy cheer my cousin on, I can't help but feel a pair of eyes boring into the back of my head making me squirm uncomfortably in my seat. I do everything in my power to keep my anxiety from overcoming me, but I know that as time passes it will be harder and harder to keep my composure.
It smells as if a storm is coming.
"He's an idiot," a female voice grumbles as she snaps her fan close almost snapping it in half, "If he keeps this up he's going to let something slip," Rustling in the nearby trees is heard and the woman looks down to find two of her comrades emerge from the foliage, all who look into the open window of the house they have under surveillance.
"What are you whining about this time," a deep rough voice asks with a sigh looking up at the woman bored.
"Natsu, you buffoon. The dense idiot is breaking master's rules," she huffs crossing her arms across her voluptuous chest.
All three figures look into the window at once keeping their gaze on the pink haired idiot who's cheering like a maniac for a guy who hates his bloody guts, "What of the girl," the third figure, who has been quiet up until now, asks without tearing his gaze from the window.
"Wendy suspects nothing," the woman says and the man shakes his head.
"Not her, the blonde," everyone looks over at the golden haired teen.
She's sitting on the couch smiling along with her two companions. Her golden blonde hair is tied up into a half side pony tail. Her milky chocolate eyes stare at the television in wonder watching her cousin's every move, but deep down a sort of uncertainty darkens her eyes. She looks a bit tense, though her guests don't seem to notice through their excitement, and every once in a while she looks over toward the window as if she felt the presence of the unwanted guests outside.
"She's getting too suspicious on what's going on," the woman replies grimly, "It won't be long before she starts asking actual questions to the wrong people and finding out the truth,"
"What do we do Freed?" the first man asks his quiet comrade who stares over at the blonde who laughs at the pink haired boy for falling off his seat in his excitement.
Said man sighs and begins to retreat back into the shadows, "Keep a close eye on her and report back to the master on everything she does. We won't be taking any action against her or Natsu, at least not now," and with that all three figures return to the darkness from which they came.
The storm is almost here.
So the reason I'm posting two chapters today is because tomorrow is my first day of school *cheers unenthusiastic* I'm finally a senior in high school meaning that this year will be hectic for me, but fear not my lovely readers, I will not stop writing more mysterious chapters for you so you may rest easy.
Also, I need some help. I'm going to introduce Macao and Romeo into the next chapter but I don't know what age to put them in, Well mostly Macao. Do you all thing I should keep him in his thirties like he was before the Tenrou arc, or should I keep him in his forties like he is during the magic games? Please give me your ideas, it'd be a great help.
Well that's all for today.
Until next time my lovelies.