Writer's Notes- Huh, did not expect this story to have this many followers, the amount may be small, but still, it shocks me. Anyway, I won't stall today, enjoy
NO POV, Magnolia Town Station
"No,no,no,no,no,no" pleaded Natsu clutching one of the stations metal frames.
"Idiot, let go. We're taking the train and that's final!" ordered Erza, but Natsu wouldn't budge. Lisanna, Grey and Happy were standing behind them, waiting for Natsu eventually break.
"Come on fire breath, the train's gonna leave any second now, we gotta go now if we wanna be back by tomorrow" said Gray.
"I'm not getting on the train. You can't make me do it" said Natsu.
"Ok, that's it" said Erza pulling out a sword and bashing Natsu on the head, instantly knocking him out.
And then…..
On the Train
The team was on their way to a mission based in a place called Hollow Falls. THe town is well-known for being haunted by the ghosts of it's past residents, only accessible by train. The 150,000 jewels request involved grave robbers robbing the townsfolks late loved ones and requested someone to come and dispose of them as quickly as possible. It was their first mission without Lucy, yet it went on like nothing happened. Natsu laid unconscious from the blow to the head he took from Erza. Happy was walking around the train looking for a piece of fish, and Gray and Lisanna were sitting across from Erza.
"Does this usually happen?" asked Lisanna
"Not really. It's only necessary in certain cases. Especially when it involves public transport" said Erza
"Well what do you expect, he had it coming. He knew the train was the only way into the town, idiot had it coming" said Gray, who had somehow stripped down to his underwear.
"Grey, you're not wearing any clothes"
"Gah!" said the ice mage freaking out. Lisanna laughed at Grey's shock, something she had not seen in a long time, seeing Natsu being as stubborn as he was years ago, and Erza for….well being Erza.
"*laughs* it's nice to see that all of you...haven't really changed. Especially you Gray" said Lisanna staring at Gray's almost naked body, causing him to freak out once again. "Hopefully that won't interfere with the mission." said Lisanna.
"It won't, i'll personally make sure of that *glare*" said Erza, glaring at Gray and Natsu, "The better question is, do you think you're up for this? This is your first real mission in two years, are you sure you're up for this task?" asked Erza. LIsanna nodded.
"I may be a little rusty, but i'm sure I'll do my best to make sure we succeed"
"Hmph, good to know. Hopefully you'll do a better job at taking care of yourself than Lucy did."
"You got that right. I wonder what Lucy's up to right now, it's kinda awkward to not have her here on a mission." said Gray. Erza's lips began to quiver slightly, still bearing the memory of what she and the rest of them had said to Lucy before, but she quickly shrugged it off.
"Well, whatever she's doing, i'm sure she's fine. She's probably off doing some low level mission to pay off her rent" Just as Erza's sentence ended, there came a swift rush of cold air, followed by the screams of a woman, then the windows along the right side of the train shattered, causing small, non-lethal cuts along Erza, Lisanna and Gray's arms. Then out of nowhere, the train's brakes kicked in, jerking everybody forward. As soon as the train stopped, Natsu instantly recovered, seeming unphased from the train's sudden halt.
"HAHAHAHA, I knew some stupid train couldn't keep me down." said Natsu smashing his flame lit hands together." Clearly was still a little disoriented to see that everyone was lying on the ground, yet he was well enough in the head to notice that the setting outside had changed. The once sunny day with clear skies had been replaced with thick gray clouds raining down snow. "Hey guys when did it start snowing" asked the pink haired dragon slayer."
"*groans* what are you going on about fire tongue?" said a now annoyed Gray, "If you look out the window you can see that it's….clearly snowing?!" said the ice mage.
"Why is it snowing, it's supposed to be the beginning of summer." said Lisanna.
"Nevermind the snow. I'm not exactly sure, but I think I heard Lucy screaming" said Erza, with nothing more than a small scratch on her cheek.
Ross's POV, Speeding towards Magnolia Town
"*Screams* SLOW DOWN SLOW DOWN" screamed Lucy as we soared through the air at breakneck speeds. Man, she's been doing this for a solid hour, I don't know whether to be impressed, or worried. Or both.
"Why? We're making great time. We'll be in town before you know it" I said, "Besides we're in no rush, what's the problem?"
"We're 10 feet off of the ground, and unlike you I can't fly. Do you understand what I am saying?!"
...
"So I'm getting the feeling that you don't enjoy flying." I said, but all that did was make her angry
"AHHHHHH, just get me down from here before I fall" she said
"Eh all right, we're here anyway" I shot straight down to the ground, and as soon as I did, my wings instantly disappeared. Lucy glanced around and saw the various buildings of Magnolia Town, and the Fairy Tail guild can be seen not too far from where we were.
"Wait, what? But when, how, why eh...how long have we been here?"
"About ten minutes, I just wanted to see how long it would take you to ask me to let you down *laughs*" Lucy didn't think it was funny, so in retaliation, she slapped me right across the face.
"Idiot! You may not know this, but not everyone likes to fly just as much as you. In fact some are downright terrified of it!" Said Lucy in a big huff
"*sighs* I'm sorry Lucy" I said
"Well you should be! At least we're back in town."
"Sweet, well what are we waiting for? Let's head over to the guild!" I said running towards the guild, well at least I tried.
"Oh no you don't Snowman" she said grabbing my ear, "I have to go finish my mission, and you're definitely not walking into the guild dressed like that" OK even though I'm focused on the constant pain coursing through my ear, Lucy had a point. Now usually I don't have a problem , but then again I've never had to be around so many people. Well that and I don't want to be compared to Gray, one random stripper is bad enough.
"Well what do you want me to do about it? I don't have any money to pay for new clothes !"
" I figured that, so here." She said handing me 1,000 Jewel, "Don't get any funny ideas, I expect you to pay me back later on."
"Alright then that seems fair" I said taking the money
"Good. I'll meet you outside the store in 10 minutes." Lucy then turned and walked in the other direction. As I'm walking to the store, I began to wonder about Lucy a little bit more. I'm kinda worried about her a little bit. She gets kicked off of her team but shows no emotion about it. I mean, Natsu ,Gray and Erza were like family to her,they really cared about her. Then Lisanna comes back , then they act like she doesn't even matter. Things are much more different then they should be. Sure some people say that different is always better, but that doesn't fit here, you should abandon your family.
"What do you think you are doing young man?" Called out a woman's voice
"Wait wait, what'd I do? What'd I do?" I asked when a woman approached me.
"Oh my god, what is wrong with, how can you go around town looking like you just walked out of a burning home?" the woman said. She had grassy green hair, which was tied in twin tails. She was almost as tall as me, up to my chin at least. She wore a dark red shirt covered by a black vest, sporting a pair of dark blue pants and a pretty damn good pair of heels. I mean it doesn't really go with this outfit of hers, but still.
"Well to be fair, I did walk out of a fire just recently."
"Well even so, a mage should still be upheld to a higher standing of style. Come with, i'll get you properly fitted" she said grabbing my arm. She dragged me into the store and plopped me down onto a seat. She was the accompanied by another young woman of a similar age and outfit, the only difference being her orange hair tied in a ponytail.
"Here Jaz this was the guy I was talking about." said the green haired girl. The other girl, who has now been dubbed Jaz, looked at me with absolute disgust
"Oh my god Mindy, you were right he is totally in need of a complete do over. What do you suggest we do?" Mindy, as she is called, quickly rushed away, and came back in a flash carrying a huge pile of clothes in her arms.
"Ok, ok, here. This guy right here, he's got kinda of a slim but toned body, so i'm thinking of a slim darkside type of look" Before I even knew, my entire appearance had changed: the platinum streaks in my hair were gone, there was dark eyeshadow around my eyes, my entire outfit was changed to a gothic look.
"No, no, no, dark mysterious is boring. You may not know this, but not every girl wants some bad boy. If it were up to me," in an instant my appearance had changed once, this time my hair wasn't black anymore, now it was bright sunshine yellow, in fact, that's what my entire outfit had consisted of: BRIGHT YELLOW. "What a woman really wants is a man who can brighten her up. Get it? "Brighten her up?"
"Yes I get it, and that has got to be the dumbest thing you've ever said. I say he needs dark look" said Jaz
"No, he needs a more positive look. Men need to appear more joyful and happy." I- I - I don't even think they're paying attention to me any more. I think they're just arguing about how to make themselves look good for men. SO as they argued away, I slipped away undetected. I spent a few minutes looking around the store, but they barely had anything that I would want to wear. Se I know it's summer, and I am a Snow Dragon Slayer, but I prefer wearing really warm clothes year round, I don't know why, it's just who I am. Luckily, I managed to find something I can make do with: I picked out a replacement pair of black jeans, but instead of wearing all black like before, I picked out a sky blue shirt, a pair of grey sneakers, and a nice black short sleeve coat. (Hey I said not all black). Overall, it ended up costing me 650 jewel clothes since warm looking clothes weren't really on sale.
"You know i've been thinking human" said Bellaruse
"Were you thinking about numerous new ways to constantly insult my abilities?"
"Ok, maybe two things. But i've been thinking, you should get yourself a weapon."
"A weapon? Bellaruse I don't have a need to use a weapon, I have magic."
"True, but the fact is, unlike other dragon slayers, you don't have a common source of energy, since snow only really appears during winter, unless you can learn how to produce it yourself."
….Oh crap she's right. Damnit, I should've seen this coming. I'm so used to being on the mountain, taking in all of that snow. But now, there's no snow to use.
"*sighs* I hate it when your right Bellaruse."
"So, basically you hate it whenever I correct you?"
"Don't push it. Luckily I see a weaponsmith up ahead. Let's ask him" We entered the store, and I kindly asked the nice gentleman if he had something from ranged weaponry. Now his first instinct was to show me a gun, but I rejected and asked for something else. He placed the gun back up on the wall and went into the back of the store. He came back a minute later, carrying a bow with runic carvings and a quiver full of arrows.
"THis is the only other weapon I have in ranged weaponry. It's a magic bow. It attaches itself to it's user, unifying the user's magic to the bow itself to increase it's abilities." he said.
"I've never seen a bow like this. It's really fascinating. How much do you want for it?" I asked
"The bow is 200 jewel, the arrows are 1 jewel each"
"Well, i'll take it, along with a set of 100 arrows" I said. I Payed the gentleman, and walked out of the store with my new weapon.
"See, now was that so hard?" she asked
"When it comes from your mouth yeah it is." I followed my way back to the clothing store at immediately spotted Lucy waiting rather impatiently for me. I ran towards her, and when she spotted me, she looked rather annoyed.
"Sorry Lucy, I know you said 10 minutes, but I got up in something else and-"
"I'm angry with you. I'm angry because that job I completed didn't give me enough money to pay my rent." she said with sadness in her voice.
"Wait a minute, what? I looked through your head" she raised any eyebrow to that comment, better phrase it a different way next time" and That job was supposed to give you 70,000 Jewel."
"Yeah, but it turns out that the complainant was an elderly woman who was being taken care by her grandson. Both of them barely had any money on them. I need to come up with 30,000 more Jewel to pay my rent or else i'm gonna get kicked out of my apartment."
"Alright calm down Lucy, calm down. I can help you get the money. Now, how much time do we have until your rent is due?" I asked
"I My rent's due next week, and all of the high paying jobs are taken" she said crossing her arms.
"Well, what if we did a bunch of small paying jobs,and get other members to help us."
"That actually sound like a good idea. but I don't think we'll be able to make it in time."
"Hey" I said pointing my finger in her face, "Do not think like that. Be positive we can do this if we work towards it. NOw tell me you can do this." I said
"I can do this"
"See, come on, let's see a more happy Lucy. Come one." i said in a joking voice. Lucy managed to make a quick smile. "See, now come, let's head to the guild."
"Alright then. Oh but I should warn you" she said.
"About what?" I asked, probably already knowing the answer to this question
"Some of the other guild members might be a bit…"different"." she said using air quotes.
"WEll then, this going to be fun. *laughs*"
Writer's Notes- Tell me how this chapter was and leave feedback, I mean if you want to. If not, just message me some suggestions of how to make the stories better. Until next time, bye bye :)